
Philipp Preiss
Principal investigator
Philipp obtained his PhD from Harvard University for work in the group of Markus Greiner. From 2016 to 2021, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Selim Jochim at Heidelberg University. He joined MPQ in September 2021.
Philipp leads the Atomic Quantum Matter group and is the project leader of FermiQP.
philipp.preiss@mpq.mpg.de

Naman Jain
Graduate student
Naman did his undergraduate work at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology. For his Masters, he worked at the Cryogenic Storage Ring at MPIK, Heidelberg, studying the quantum dynamics of cold diatomic molecular ions. Later, he worked on a space-based rubidium atomic frequency standard at the Indian Space Research Organisation.
Naman joined the group in October 2021.
Soumyadeep Sarkar
Research assistant
Soumya is a QST Master student at TUM/LMU and working in the group as a research assistant.
Soumya joined the group in August 2022.

Daniel Dux
Master student
Daniel is pursuing a Masters of Science in Physics degree at Heidelberg University, where he previously worked in Selim Jochim’s lab. He joins the UniRand project as an external Master student.
Daniel joined the group in September 2022.

Jin Zhang
Graduate student
Jin did his Master’s at the University of Wisconsin Madison, working with Mark Saffman on a dual-species grating MOT and toward a neutral atom quantum network.
Jin joined the group in October 2022.

Arne Geipel
Bachelor student
Arne is a student at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where he is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in physics.
Arne joined the group in October 2022.
Alumni
Gaurav Vaidya
Research intern
Gaurav worked in the group as a research intern from February 2022 to July 2022 while on an exchange semester at TUM from IIT Madras.
Cady Feng
Research intern
Cady worked in the group as a research intern from June 2022 to August 2022 as part of the Princeton University Summer Work Program.
Jan Wozniak
Working assistant
Jan joined the group as a research assistant from April 2022 to July 2022 while pursuing the QST Master at LMU.