DrFrank Schindler

Associate Professor in Quantum Matter Theory

Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences

  • Associate Professor in Quantum Matter Theory
    Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
  • 020 7594 6807 (Work)
  • 806, Blackett Laboratory, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom

BIO

I am a condensed matter theorist at Imperial's Department of Physics.

 

My research is on topological phases of matter, and more generally on topological phenomena in quantum materials, metamaterials, and quantum dynamics. You can read more about topological phases in this article: Physicists Aim to Classify All Possible Phases of Matter.

 

I am additionally supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship.

 

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Awards
- James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics (2024)
- Sam B. Treiman Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton University (2022)
- Award in Computational Physics, Swiss Physical Society (2020)
- Special Prize of the Mercator Award Jury, University of Zurich (2019)
- Studentship in Mathematics, Trinity College Cambridge (2016)
- Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (2014)

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor
    Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom1 Sep 2025 - present
  • Future Leaders Fellow
    UK Research and Innovation, Swindon, United Kingdom1 Nov 2024 - present
  • Assistant Professor
    Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom1 Aug 2023 - 31 Aug 2025
  • Associate Research Scholar
    Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton, United States1 Sep 2020 - 31 Jul 2023
  • Graduate Fellow
    Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, United States1 Jan 2019 - 30 Jun 2019

DEGREES

  • PhD in Condensed Matter Theory
    University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland1 Jul 2016 - 31 Jul 2020
  • Part III of the Mathematical Tripos
    University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom1 Oct 2015 - 30 Jun 2016
  • BSc in Physics
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany1 Oct 2012 - 31 Jul 2015

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • German
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

FACULTY

  • Faculty of Natural Sciences

POSITION NAME

  • Associate Professor in Quantum Matter Theory

FIELDS OF RESEARCH