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Dr. Jesko Sirker
Scientific Career
| since April 2020 | Full Professor University of Manitoba, Winnipeg/Canada |
| April 2016 - March 2020 | Associate Professor University of Manitoba, Winnipeg/Canada |
| March 2014 - March 2016 | Assistant Professor University of Manitoba, Winnipeg/Canada |
| June 2009 - March 2014 | Assistant Professor University Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern/Germany |
| October 2006 - May 2009 | Researcher Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Department Metzner, Stuttgart/Germany |
| January 2005 - September 2006 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Prof. Ian Affleck) University of British Columbia, Vancouver/Canada |
| June 2003 - January 2005 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Prof. Oleg Sushkov) University of New South Wales, Sydney/Australia |
Other roles
| since 2020 | Founding Director of the Manitoba Quantum Institute (MQI) |
| 2015 - 2019 | Representative of the University of Manitoba on the Westgrid Executive |
| 2015 - 2020 | Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Physics |
| 2017 - 2019 | Director Winnipeg Institute for Theoretical Physics (WITP) |
Education
| June 2010 | Habilitation University Wuppertal “Dynamical correlations, impurity effects, and structural distortions in spin chains and quantum wires” |
| December 2002 | Ph.D. thesis University Dortmund “Transfer matrix approach to thermodynamics and dynamics of one-dimensional quantum systems” Supervisor: Prof. A. Kluemper with highest honours |
| June 2000 | Diploma thesis University Köln “Ground state properties of two-dimensional dimerized Heisenberg models” Supervisor: Prof. A. Kluemper with highest honours |
| 1994-2000 | Studies of Physics and Mathematics University Köln |
Grants, Awards, Fellowships
| since October 2015 | Principal investigator, DFG Research Unit FOR 2316 (1) “Non-Abelian Anyons” (2) “Dynamical correlation functions of integrable quantum systems” (3) “Transport properties of integrable quantum systems” |
| since April 2014 | Discovery Grant by NSERC (Canada) |
| July 2011 - July 2015 | Principal investigator, Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR49 Project: “Thermodynamics and dynamics of one-dimensional quantum systems” |
| November 2012 - March 2014 | Principal investigator, Excellence Graduate School MAINZ |
| August 2009 - March 2014 | Member of the research center OPTIMAS |
| June 2009 - December 2013 | Grant by the excellence graduate school MAINZ |
| October 2007 - November 2007 | Research Fellowship University of New South Wales Sydney/Australia |
| April 2004 - April 2006 | Emmy-Noether research fellowship for excellent young scientists German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| October 2003 | Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in Physics University Dortmund (2002) |
| January 2001 - May 2003 | Collaboration and financial support within research group “Collective quantum states in one-dimensional transition metal compounds” German Research Foundation (DFG) |