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Dr. Jesko Sirker


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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)