CV
Curriculum vitae of Volker Karle
Summary
Postdoctoral researcher in driven and hybrid quantum matter (AMO & condensed matter). I study how the non-equilibrium, topological, and entanglement structure of driven and cavity-coupled systems can be harnessed for quantum sensing, quantum materials, and quantum information, combining many-body numerics (ED, Floquet, DMRG/tensor networks) with minimal analytical models and open-source Julia tooling.
Profile
| Name | Volker Karle |
| Role | Postdoctoral Researcher, Quantum Physics |
| Affiliation | Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) → University of Tokyo, ISSP (from Oct 2026) |
| Group | Oka group (JSPS fellow) · previously Lemeshko Group |
| Location | Klosterneuburg / Vienna, Austria → Tokyo, Japan |
| Contact | vkarle@ist.ac.at |
| Languages | German (native), English (fluent), Japanese (basic, in progress) |
| Profiles | |
Experience
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2026 – JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Quantum Physics
University of Tokyo, Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) - Host: Prof. Takashi Oka (Oka group)
- Driven and hybrid quantum matter; Floquet engineering and topology in AMO/condensed-matter systems
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2025 – 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher, Quantum Physics
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) - Quantum dynamics and topology in driven molecular and rotor platforms
- Lemeshko Group (Quantum Dynamics & Control)
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2019 – 2025 PhD Researcher, Theoretical Physics
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) - Non-equilibrium topological phases in periodically driven molecules and quantum rotors
- Area-law eigenstates in large nullspaces; classical and quantum localization
Education
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2019 - 2025 PhD in Theoretical Physics
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) - Thesis: Non-equilibrium topological phases with periodically driven molecules and quantum rotors
- Advisor: Prof. Mikhail Lemeshko
- Focus: Floquet physics, topology, molecular dynamics
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2016 - 2018 Master of Science in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
Heidelberg University, Germany - Thesis on coupled superfluidity in 2D Bose mixtures (Tilman Enss)
- Focus: many-body physics, quantum statistical mechanics
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2011 - 2015 Bachelor of Science in Physics
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany - Foundation in theoretical and experimental physics
- Projects in quantum and statistical mechanics
Research Interests
- Driven & hybrid quantum matter: AMO + condensed matter
- Floquet engineering, nonlinear & nonlinearly driven systems
- Topology of hybrid light-matter systems (cavity, chiral light)
- Driven-dissipative protocols and light-matter cat states
- Entanglement structure of excited states (scars, area-law)
- {"Applications"=>"quantum sensing, quantum materials, quantum information"}
Research Software
- UnitaryTransformations.jl: Schrieffer-Wolff and Lang-Firsov unitary transformations in quantum mechanics (GitHub)
- SymbolicDiagonalization.jl: symbolic matrix diagonalization for small or highly symmetric matrices (GitHub)
- QuantumAlgebra.jl: quantum operator algebra in Julia (fork of jfeist/QuantumAlgebra.jl; GitHub)
- TreeSimplify.jl: symbolic simplification engine for large expressions (GitHub)
Skills
| Programming | ||||
| Julia (incl. open-source scientific packages) | ||||
| Python | ||||
| C++ | ||||
| Numerics & Theory | |||
| Exact diagonalization, Floquet ED, DMRG / tensor networks | |||
| ODE/PDE solvers, RG, symbolic methods, driven-dissipative modeling | |||
| ML & Tools | ||
| PyTorch, JAX, SLURM, Docker | ||
| Workflow | ||
| Linux, Git, LaTeX, Julia REPL, MS-Office | ||