Claudiu Genes - CV October 2019

Personal details

birth: 26.01.1978, Piatra Neamt, Romaniachildren: daughter Siena Johanna Genes, born 02.04.2010email address: claudiu.genes@mpl.mpg.deORCID ID: 0000-0003-4445-5739google scholar link: google scholar

webpage: Cooperative Quantum Phenomena, MPL, Erlangen

Education

2001-2006: Ph. D. in physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.1996-2000: B.S. in physics, University of Bucharest, Romania1999: Erasmus student, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany1992-1996: high-school Petru Rares, Piatra Neamt, Romania

Scientific career

since 2017: Max Planck Group Leader (W2 position), MPL, Erlangen (Ger-many).2013-2016: Senior Researcher and FWF stand-alone project leader, Innsbruck, (Austria).2008-2012: Postdoctoral Fellow, Innsbruck (Austria) (w/Profs. H. Ritsch and P. Zoller)2006-2008: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Camerino (Italy) (w/Profs. D. Vitali and P. Tombesi)2001-2006: Ph.D, Teaching and Research Assistant, Ann Arbor, USA (w/Profs. P. R. Berman)

Research topics

Vacuum-dressed materials, Molecular quantum optics, Quantum (hybrid) optomechanics, Charge andenergy transport and transfer, Subradiantly-enhanced materials, Molecular polaritonics, Quantumchemistry

Publishing Impact

Publications: 51 peer-reviewed works including: 1 Nat. Comms. 1 Nat. Mat., 2 Sci. Rep., 10PRLs, 28 PRAs, 3 JPB, 3 NJP, 5 review chapters/booksCitations: 3020 (2015 since 2014), h-index 25 (source google scholar)

Awards

2016: AUFF guest professorship (2 months), University of Aarhus, Denmark2013: Ludwig Boltzmann Award for 2013 (most outstanding theoretical physicist under age 35 inAustria during 2012-2013) of the Austrian Physical Society (OPG) for groundbreaking work in thefield of cavity optomechanics1999: Erasmus fellowship (duration 6 months) at the University of Hannover, Germany with Prof.M. Lewenstein1990-1996: winner of many awards (1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes) at high-school and pre-high-schoolnational physics competitions in Romania

Supervision activities

Currently supervising two postdocs: C. Sommer and M. AsjadCurrently supervising two PhD students: F. Mineo and M. Reitz

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Claudiu Genes - CV October 2019

Co-supervised D. Plankensteiner (Ph.D student, graduated 2016, Innsbruck).Co-supervised J. Rohn (bachelor student, graduated 2019, Erlangen).Supervised O. Cernotik (postdoc MPL, 2017-2019)Co-supervised E. Tignone (Ph. D student,graduated 2016, Strasbourg).Supervised master theses for: M. Reitz (graduated 2018) D. Plankensteiner and T. Hinkel (bothgraduated 2015)

Teaching experience

Quantum Physics of Light-Matter Interactions – FAU, 3 hours/week (2020)Quantum optics with molecules – lectures at IMPRS school (2019)Quantum Physics of Light-Matter Interactions – FAU, 3 hours/week (2019)Fundamentals of lasers, cooling and optomechanics – OIST, Japan, summer school lectures- 3lectures (2018)Quantum Physics of Light-Matter Interactions – FAU, 3 hours/week (2018)OMT Summer school Erlangen– lecture on Cavity hybrid optomechanics (2017)Tutorial on multi-element optomechanics (Gordon seminar – Mechanical systems in the quantumregime) (2014)class on ’Mechanics and acoustics’ - undegraduate level, University of Michigan, (2001 − 2002, 4classes of 20 students each).

Organization of conferences

2020: main organizer Molecular Polaritonics (July 5-9), Erlangen, Germany.2019: main organizer Molecular Polaritonics (July 8-11), Madrid, Spain.2014: main organizer Quantum Technologies based on hybrid emitter - solid state systems (Sept.21-24), Strasbourg, France (ESF - strategic workshop).2013: main organizer Cavity optomechanics-from the micro to the macroscale (Nov. 4-6), Innsbruck,(Austria).2009: co-organizer Quantum Optics Meeting, Obergurgl, Feb 2009, Austria.

Grants and Projects

2019: participant (as MPL theory node) in SFB proposal ’QuCoLiMa - Quantum Cooperativity ofLight and Matter’ (submitted-requested Euro:200K))2018: participant (as MPL theory node) in QuantERA proposal Room Temperature QuantumTechnologies (Euro:200K) (granted)2016: awarded start-up funds for an independent Max Planck Research Group from the Max PlanckSociety (Euro:1.6M)2016: granted an FWF stand-alone project (Exploiting collective dynamics of quantum emittersensembles - P29318) as principal investigator from the Austrian Science Fund (Euro:250K) (trans-ferred to H. Ritsch)2013: granted funds from the ESF (European Science Foundation) to organize a strategic workshopQuantum technologies based on hybrid emitter - solid state systems- Sep. 21st-24th, 2014, Strasbourg,France (main organizer, chair) (Euro:20K)2013: granted an FWF stand-alone project (Hybrid Cavity Quantum Optomechanics - P24968-N27) as principal investigator from the Austrian Science Fund (Euro:214K)2013: granted funds from the SFB (Special Research Programs from FWF) and networks CCQEDand CQOM to organize a workshop in Innsbruck, Cavity optomechanics - from the micro to themacroscale (Nov. 4-6, 2013), Innsbruck, Austria (main organizer, chair) (Euro:20K)

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Conference participations, (invited) talks and seminars and research visits (last 7 years)

2019, Oct: Cooperative quantum phenomena-an overview, annual meeting of the Max PlanckuOttawa center for extreme and quantum photonics (guest lecture).2019, Oct: Optomechanical refrigeration via multimode feedback, iqClock meeting, Innsbruck,Austria (guest lecture).2019, Sept: Cavity optics with molecules, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (invited seminar).2019, May: Cavity QED with molecules, ICQOQI, Minsk, Belarus (invited talk).2019, April: Cavity QED with molecules, IST Austria, Austria (seminar).2019, Jan: Cavity QED with molecules, ITP Innsbruck, Austria (seminar).2018, Nov: Cavity QED with coupled quantum emitters, ISIS, Strasbourg, France (RouTe Kick-offmeeting).2018, Oct: Fundamentals of light-matter interactions, OIST, Okinawa, Japan (3 lectures at summerschool).2018, June: Applications of collective subradiant states of coupled quantum emitters, College deFrance, Paris, France (invited talk).2017, Oct: Vacuum-dressed materials, CCQ Strong light-matter interactions, New York, US(invited talk).2017, June: Hybrid atom opto-mechanics, OMT summer school, Erlangen, Germany (one lecture).2017, April: Collective dynamics in quantum systems, IFIN-HH, Bucharest (Romania) (seminar).2016, Dec: Exploiting collective dynamics for metrology, transport and optomechanical applica-tions, SFB meeting (invited talk) (Vienna, Austria).2016, Oct: Quantum transport in cavities, Strong coupling with Organic Molecules, workshop -San Sebastian, Spain (talk).2016, Oct: Collective dynamics in interacting systems of quantum emitters, Aarhus, Denmark(invited talk).2016, Sep: Collective dynamics in transport and strongly interacting Rydberg gases, Aarhus,Denmark (invited talk).2016, Mar: Collective dynamics in quantum systems, Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology,Okinawa, Japan (invited talk).2016, Jan: Collective dynamics in quantum systems, talk at the symposium for group leaderselection, Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany (invited talk).2015, Dec: Exploiting collective dynamics for metrology, transport and optomechanical applica-tions, Ulm University, Germany (invited seminar).2015, Nov: Exploiting collective dynamics for metrology, transport and optomechanical applica-tions, Max Planck Erlangen, Germany (invited seminar).2015, Nov: Quantum metrology, transport and state preparation with interacting systems ofquantum emitters, University of Camerino, Italy (invited seminar).2014, Dec: Quantum metrology, transport and state preparation with interacting systems ofquantum emitters, Theory Colloquium, University of Erlangen, (invited talk).2014, Dec: Quantum metrology, transport and state preparation with interacting systems ofquantum emitters, Engineering of quantum emitter properties, workshop, University of Innsbruck,(talk)2014, Aug: Application of collective dynamics to quantum metrology and exciton transport, atthe invitation of Prof. D. Chang, (invited seminar).2014, May: collaboration visit on the topic: Rydberg-based quantum simulators and talk: Pro-tected state quantum metrology, at the invitation of Prof. K. Omoji, IMS, Okazaki , Japan, (invitedseminar).2014, Mar: Multi-element Optomechanical Platforms, seminar JILA, Boulder, Colorado, USA(invited seminar).

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2014, Feb: Multi-element Optomechanical Platforms in the Linear and Nonlinear Regimes, GordonResearch Seminar: Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime, Ventura Beach, CA, USA (invitedtalk).2014, Feb: Protected state quantum metrology, Quantum Optics meeting, Obergurgl, Austria(invited talk).2013, Sep: Protected state enhanced quantum metrology with interacting two-level ensembles,Workshop for quantum simulation of open quantum systems, FRIAS, Freiburg, Germany (talk).2013, Sep: Single and multilement optomechanical platform, Boltzmann Award talk, OPG annualmeeting, Linz, Austria (invited talk).2013, Apr: Optomechanical platforms: strong coupling and optical coalescence application incavity QED, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy (invited seminar).2012, Jul: Collective optomechanics with arrays of membranes, SFB meeting, Innsbruck, Austria(invited talk).

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