23 August 2024

Former MCQST Distinguished Postdoc Fellows Awarded Young Scientist Prize

Dr. Lea Boßmann and Dr. Amanda Young, both former MCQST Distinguished Postdoc Fellows, have been awarded the Early Career Scientist Prize at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics in Strasbourg, July 2024. This prestigious prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics honours their significant contributions to mathematical physics.

Lea Boßmann pursued her studies in Physics at LMU Munich and completed the TMP Master program in 2016. She obtained her PhD in Mathematics under Professor Stefan Teufel, receiving a Dissertation Prize from the University of Tübingen in 2019. Lea then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at IST Austria (2019-2022) before becoming a Distinguished Postdoc Fellow at MCQST and LMU Munich (2022-2024) in the group of Prof. Phan Thành Nam. Since February 2024, she is a tenure-track Junior Professor for Analysis at the University of Mainz. Lea's research primarily involves the mathematical analysis of quantum many-body systems. In particular, she has made several original contributions on the spectrum and dynamics of interacting Bose gases in the mean-field limit.

Amanda Young completed her PhD at UC Davis in 2016 under Professor Bruno Nachtergaele. She subsequently held a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at the University of Arizona until 2019, followed by a Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship at MCQST and TUM Munich until 2023 in the group of Prof. Simone Warzel. Since August 2023, she has been an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Amanda’s research centers on the classification of quantum phases of matter, employing analytical methods to explore the spectral and dynamical properties of ground states in quantum lattice models. Her collaborative efforts have led to the successful proof of spectral gaps in multi-dimensional quantum spin models and a bulk gap for a truncated Haldane pseudopotential, thus making progress on some long-standing conjectures.

Congratulations to Lea and Amanda!

Source: Article adapted from the IUPAP website.