Corinna Susan Kollath (born 21 April 1976) is a Scottish-born German theoretical and computational physicist whose research involves ultracold gases, the many-body problem, and out-of-equilibrium low dimensional correlated systems in quantum mechanics. She is a professor at the University of Bonn ^[1]

Education and career

Kollath was born on 21 April 1976 in Stirling. ^{[1] [2]} She studied physics at the University of Cologne, ^[3] with a year at the University of Glasgow where she earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1998, with first-class honours. ^[4] Returning to Cologne, she completed a diploma in 2001 under the supervision of Martin Zirnbauer. Next, she did doctoral research at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with Jan von Delft [ de] and Ulrich Schollwöck [ de], but completed her doctorate at RWTH Aachen University in 2005. ^[3]

She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva and the École polytechnique in France, ^[1] in 2008 continuing at the École polytechnique as a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She took an associate professorship at the University of Geneva in 2011 ^[3] and in 2013 moved to her present position as a full professor of theoretical quantum physics at the University of Bonn. ^[1]

Recognition

Kollath was the 2009 winner of the Hertha Sponer Prize [ de] of the German Physical Society for her research on ultracold gases. ^[5] In 2010 the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities gave her their physics prize. ^[6]

In 2020 she was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, "for studies of low dimensional correlated systems, in particular out of equilibrium, using a combination of analytic and novel numerical approaches". ^{[1] [7]}

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