Kai Phillip Schmidt

Career

From 11/23 Chair for Theoretical Physics
From 07/23 Speaker of the FAU Profile Center Light.Matter.QuantumTechnologies
10/22-09/24 Deputy Head of the Department Physik at FAU
01/21-12/25 Vice-Speaker of the CRC-TR 306 QuCoLiMa
01/21-12/25 Head Integrated Research Training Group of the CRC-TR 306 QuCoLiMa
10/20-09/22 Head of the Department Physik at FAU
2019 Co-Founder of the Physics Diversity Network (PHYDINE)
10/18-09/19 Women Representative of the Department Physik at FAU
From 04/16 Professor for Theoretical Physics at FAU
02/08-03/16 EURYI Fellow at the TU Dortmund
09/05-01/08 Postdoc at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne with Dr. A. Läuchli and Prof. F. Mila
11/04-09/05 Postdoc at the
Universität zu Köln with Prof. G.S. Uhrig (Universität Dortmund) and
Prof. E. Müller-Hartmann
11/04 PhD thesis; Title:„Spectral Properties of Quasi
One-dimensional Quantum Antiferromagnets – Perturbative Continuous Unitary
Transformations“ supervised by Prof. G.S. Uhrig,
Universität zu Köln

Scholarships, Awards and Fellowships

2025 Teaching Award (Preis für gute Lehre), Department Physik, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2024 Teaching Award of the Faculty of Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2023 Renate-Wittern-Sterzel-Prize 2023 as Co-Organisator of the DIPHER22 conference, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2018 Teaching Award (Preis für gute Lehre), Department Physik, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2014 Teaching Award (Lehrpreis) 2014 der TU Dortmund
2009 Innovationspreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
2009 Board member of the Junges Kolleg der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste
2007 European Young Investigator (EURYI) Award
1997 DAAD scholarship to study at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Studies

2000 Diploma;
Title of the Diploma thesis:“Magnetically Driven Quantum Phase Transitions In Itinerant Electron Systems“ under the supervision of Professor Hartmut Monien
1997 Physics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1996 Prediploma in Physics
1995 Mathematics at the Friedrich-Wilhelm Universität Bonn
1994 Physics at the Friedrich-Wilhelm Universität Bonn