Henrik Johannesson: alumni students

Ph.D. theses

Criticality and Frustration
Per Fröjdh, Ph.D. 1993
Postdoc, University of Washington 1993-96, NORDITA 96-97
Assistant Professor in Theoretical Physics, SU 97-99
now Vice President, International Standards at Ericsson.

Antiferromagnets and Luttinger Liquids: Two Strongly Correlated Systems
Ann Mattsson, Ph.D. 1997
Postdoc at ITP, Santa Barbara 1997-99
Assistant Professor in Theoretical Physics, KTH 99 - 02
now Senior Researcher at Los Alamos National Lab, USA.

Magnetic Interactions of Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mats Granath, Ph.D. 1999
Postdoc, UCLA 1999-2001, NORDITA 2001-03
now Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics, GU.

Correlation Effects in Nanostructures
Paata Kakashvili, Ph.D. 2006
Postdoc, Rice University, 2006 - 2009, NORDITA 2009 - 2011
Research Associate, Rutgers University, 2011 - 2013
now at Baker Botts law firm, Dallas, USA.

Interaction and Disorder in Helical Conductors
Anders Ström, Ph.D. 2012
Postdoc, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 2012-2014
now at Ericson Radio Systems.

Correlations in Low-Dimensional Quantum Many-Particle Systems
Erik Eriksson, Ph.D. 2013
Postdoc, Universität Düsseldorf, 2013-2015; CEA Grenoble 2015-2016
now at the Swedish Patent Office in Stockholm.

Symmetry-protected Topological Phases: From Floquet Theory to Machine Learning
Oleksandr Balabanov, Ph.D. 2020
Postdoc, Stockholm University, 2020-2022
now working with the Google Speech Cloud AI team in Warzaw.

Masters theses

Real Space Renormalization Group
Stefan Rommer, 1994
received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at Chalmers in 1998 and is now a Senior Specialist,
R&D at Ericsson.

Pulsed Electro-Acoustic Method in Multi-Layer Structures
Thomas Örtenberg, 1994
took up a job with ABB Corporate Research after graduation.

Equations of Stars and Clouds
Pontus Svensson, 1996
received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics 2001 (Chalmers) and then took up a
position as researcher at FOI, Linköping.

Current Algebra at the Edge of a Quantum Hall Liquid
David Gustafsson, 1996
received a Lic. in Theoretical Physics at Chalmers 1999 and after another two
years at Chicago University he got employed as a financial analyst on Wall Street.

Quantized Hall Effect with Composite Fermions
Sven Stoltz, 1999
received his Ph.D. in Physics from Chalmers in 2004; postdocs at MAX Lab (Lund), Harvard University,
and Nortwestern University; now a university lecturer at Malmö University.

The Kondo Problem - From Bethe's Ansatz to Hyperelliptic Functions
Carl-Johan Eklund, 2001
Fulbright Fellow, received a PhD in Physics at Rutgers University in 2009,
and is now an associate with the AWA intellectual property firm.

Quantum Phase Transitions in Spin Models
Joan Alegret, 2002
received his Ph.D. degree in Biological Physics at Chalmers in 2008.

Persistent Currents - Exact Bethe Ansatz Results
Johan Nilsson, 2003
received his Ph.D. in Physics at Boston University in May 2007; after a postdoc at Leiden University and an
assistant professorhip at GU he is now an Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics at Uppsala University.

von Neumann Entropy of Spin Systems from Exact Diagonalization
Henrik Stegeby, 2004
worked as a music teacher before receiving a PhD in Quantum Chemistry from Uppsala University 2018;
now works as a consultant at Knowit.

Entanglement in Finite Spin Systems
Robert Rehammar, 2005
received his PhD in Physics at Chalmers in February 2012 with a thesis on photonic crystals;
currently CEO at RAR consultant firm.

Transmittance of DNA - A Computational Study
Ester Fjellander, 2005
received a PhD in Quantum Chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology in 2010.

Entanglement Scaling in Bethe Ansatz Solvable Models Exhibiting Quantum Phase Transitions
Daniel Larsson, 2005
received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at Birmingham University in 2010
and is now working as a senior scientist at Forsmark nuclear plant.

Critical Behavior in Double Quantum Dots
David Mross, 2008
Ph.D. in Physics from MIT 2013; postdoc at Caltech 2013-2016; now on the faculty of the Weizman Institute.

Quantum Phase Transitions in an Integrable One-Dimensional Spin Model
Erik Eriksson, 2008
Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, GU 2013; postdoc, Universität Düsseldorf, 2013-2015, and CEA Grenoble, 2015-2016;
now at the Swedish Patent Office in Stockholm.

Spin-Orbit Interactions in Topological Insulators
Kristofer Björnson, 2010
PhD in Theoretical Physics from Uppsala University 2018; followed by a postdoc at the Niels Bohr Institute.
Now a researcher at Ericsson.

Kondo Physics in the Presence of Rashba Interaction on the Edge of a Topological Insulator
Girish Sharma, 2011
received a PhD in Physics from Clemson University 2016; postdoc at Virginia Tech 2016-18;
now on the faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi.

Majorana Fermions in Topological Quantum Matter
Pontus Laurell, 2012
received a PhD in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018; postdocs at Oak Ridge National Lab 2018-21
and University of Tennessee 2021-24; now on the faculty at the University of Missouri.

Investigation of Quantum Spin Hall Geometries in Search for Quantum Gates
Gustav Åvall, 2015
received a PhD in applied physics from Chalmers in 2020; postdoc at Humboldt Universität 2020-23;
now a researcher at SEEL Swedish Electric Transport Laboratory

Topological Kondo Effect with Majorana Fermions
Poorani Gnanasambandan, 2016
received a PhD in materials science at Universiteʼ du Luxembourg;
now a postdoc at Eindhoven University of Technology.

The Fredkin Spin Chain
Olof Salberger, 2016
received a PhD in Mathematical Physics from Stony Brook University 2021.

Construction of Physical Models from Category Theory
Marko Marjanovic, 2017
now a teacher at the International IT College of Sweden.

Floquet Topological Superconductors
Jimmy Aronsson, 2018
received a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Gothenburg;
now a researcher at AI & Radar Technology, SAAB .

Quantum Gates Using Majorana Modes in Nanowires
Sebastian Östnell, 2019
now AI engineer at Yoin Tecnologies.

Majorana Fermions and Topological Superconductivity
Daniel Erkensten, 2019
received a PhD in Physics at Chalmers 2023;
now postdoc at Philipps-Universität Marburg.

Non-heating Floquet Systems
Michael Högberg, 2020
presently programmer at Ericsson.