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Tobias Wolf
As a physicist with 8+ years of research experience in complex quantum matter, I drive innovative research and advancements in condensed matter theory. My collaborative efforts with top-tier scientists and institutions have led to presentations at international forums and impactful publications in peer-reviewed journals. In my academic career, I have gained software development, computing infrastructure, and project management skills. My core competencies include problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, and teamwork. I am passionate about advancing the frontiers of knowledge and innovation in physics and related fields and contributing to the scientific community and society.
I am a currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin where I work with Prof. Allan MacDonald and his group at the Center for Complex Quantum Systems. I received my PhD degree at ETH Zürich advised by Prof. Gianni Blatter (condensed and coherent quantum systems) and Prof. Oded Zilberberg (quantum engineered systems) at the Institute for Theoretical Physics.
My research deals with emergent phenomena in condensed matter, particularly involving recent developments around two-dimensional van der Waals materials like graphene multilayers and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). In my Ph.D., I investigated how twist-engineered moiré structures at stacking interfaces give rise to unusual symmetry-broken phases and valley band topology through unusual Berry curvatures and flat bands susceptible to interaction-induced spin and valley polarization. At UT Austin, motivated by experimental discoveries, I have been studying metallic magnetism and superconductivity in rhombohedral multilayer graphene, providing insights into the competition between magnetism, valley polarization, and intervalley coherence near van Hove singularities, and collective-mode excitation spectra and correlation energy in continuum models. Balancing analytical insights and numerical approaches, I study low-energy effective models, observable signatures (e.g. in electronic spectra, local density of states, absorption spectra) in singlelayer, bilayer and few-layer materials (e.g. graphene, hBN, MoS2) and their artificial analogues, and emergent moiré length-scale phenomena (e.g. fractal Landau-Hofstadter subband splitting, engineerable flat bands, interaction-induced magnetic instabilities).