Maksym Serbyn

Maksym Serbyn

Professor of Physics

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Biography

Maksym is a professor of Physics at ISTA. Before this appointment he was Gordon and Betty Moore postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. Since 2017 Maksym leads the Quantum Dynamics & Condensed Matter research group at ISTA, which develops theory of nonequilibrium quantum systems and quantum thermalization, and also works on emergent phases in condensed matter systems.

Interests
  • Quantum thermalization
  • Entanglement dynamics
  • Dynamical phases of matter
  • Nonequilibrium probes of solids
  • Tensor networks
Education
  • PhD in Physics, 2014

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

  • MS in Physics, 2009

    Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)

  • BS in Physics, 2007

    Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)

Meet the Team

Graduate Students

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Serafim Babkin

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Graduate Student

Superconductivity, 2D heterostructures, Disordered systems

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Aron Kerschbaumer

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Graduate Student

Weak Breaking of Ergodicity, Variational Algorithms, Quantum Optimization

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Dmytro Kolisnyk

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Graduate Student

Entanglement Structure of Quantum States, Tensor networks and Machine Learning Applications in Physics

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Elena Petrova

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Graduate Student

Quantum control, Quantum many-body physics

Researchers

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Jean-Yves Desaules

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Postdoc

Ergodicity breaking, Quantum many-body scars, Synthetic quantum matter

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E. Nicolau Jiménez

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Postdoc

Quantum many-body physics, Nonergodic systems, Hilbert space fragmentation

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Lucia Vigliotti

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Postdoc

Condensed matter physics, Quantum transport, Superconductivity, Mesoscopic physics

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Yupeng Wang

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Postdoc

Anomalous quantum transport, Thermal first order phase transitions, Machine learning in many-body physics, Weak ergodicity breaking, Non-Hermitian physics