Prof. Dr. Michael A. Sentef


Group leader
Email:michael(dot)sentef(at)mpsd.mpg.de
Tel.: +49 (0)40 8998-88350

Research Interests

– ultrafast dynamics of condensed matter
– theory of time-resolved pump-probe spectroscopies
– novel light-induced nonequilibrium states of matter
– Floquet states in driven quantum many-body systems
– nonequilibrium Keldysh formalism
– numerical simulations of Kadanoff-Baym equations

Short Bio

  • Since April 2023: Professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics, University of Bremen
  • December 2022 – March 2023: Associate Professor of Physics, University of Bristol, UK
  • September 2016 – December 2022: Group leader of the Emmy Noether research group “Theoretical description of ultrafast spectroscopies in solids”
  • 2015 – 2016: Senior Postdoc (Group Leader), Theory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg
  • 2014 – 2015: Postdoc with Prof. Corinna Kollath, University of Bonn
  • 2011 – 2014: Postdoc with Prof. Thomas Devereaux, Stanford University and SLAC
  • 2006 – 2010: PhD in physics with Prof. Arno Kampf, University of Augsburg. Thesis: “Electronic Correlations in Insulators, Metals and Superconductors”
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