Light and Matter Group

PD Dr. Dirk-André Deckert studied Physics at the LMU Munich and, as a DAAD fellow, at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. After his doctoral studies, funded by the BayEFG initiative, today Elite Network of Bavaria, he received his doctorate in Mathematics at the LMU Munich in 2010. His doctoral thesis "Electrodynamic Absorber Theory" comprises a mathematical and physical investigation of radiation reaction and electron-positron pair creation. His main research and teaching activities lie within Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics and focus, especially in Mathematical Quantum Field Theory and Mathematical Learning Theory. For one year, he conducted research as a post-doc fellow of the DAAD at the University of California Davis, where he was later appointed as Arthur J. Krener Assistant Professor for three years before commencing his work in the Elite Network of Bavaria in Munich. At the Department of Mathematics at the LMU Munich he is part of the Stochastics Research Group where he wrote his habilitation "On three known deficiencies of Mathematical Quantum Field Theory".

Dr. Paula Reichert-Schürmer studied physics, mathematics, and philosophy at the University of Munich (LMU) where she also received her PhD (in mathematical physics) in 2018. Her dissertation was dedicated to the statistical analysis of gravitating systems and relationalist theories of gravity (shape dynamics). It was supervised by Prof. Dr. Detlef Dürr. After her PhD, she had several scholarships and held different postdoctoral positions in both mathematics and philosophy, before she became a full lecturer in mathematics at the LMU in 2023. Since 2024 she is also a member of the metaphysics chair in philosophy. Her research is focused on the mathematical and conceptual foundations of physics and metaphysics.

Fabian Nolte (BSc Physics) is a master's student, graduating with a thesis on scattering in the time-dependent Van Hove-Miyatake model, with a focus on infrared regularization. In addition to his research in mathematical quantum field theory, he is interested in the challenges of interacting classical field theory and the foundations of quantum mechanics.

Jose Antonio Lucero Contreras (BSc Physics) studied physics at the LMU Munich. After finishing his Bachelor’s degree in 2022 with the thesis “Gravitational Waves and the Weak Field Approximation”, he is pursuing the Master’s degree at the LMU with focus in the fields of theoretical and mathematical physics. His Master Thesis at the Light and Matther Group is focused on the problem of radiation reaction in the classical electromagnetic theory.