Acknowledgments#
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I am not big on giving speeches and the like, but still want to thank the people that helped and impacted me on the way of finally finishing this document.
Beginning with my advisor, Fakher Assaad, who has already been an excellent mentor to me even before I started my doctoral studies. He came up with very interesting projects for me, gave lots of liberty to explore my interests with e.g. pyALF and is generally a really cool guy.
I’d also like to thank the other two members of my advisory committee, Thorsten Ohl and Igor Herbut, for their easygoing cooperation and Mr. Schröder-Köhne from the GSST for his help and patience with the administrative aspects of my doctoral studies.
Furthermore, I thank my scientific collaborators for the pleasant and productive interaction: Lukas Janssen, Kain Sun, Zi Yang Meng, Igor Herbut, Matthias Vojta, Francesco Parisen Toldin and Fakher Assaad. I would like to thank Subir Sachdev for illuminating discussions on the project discussed in Chapter 3.
I also would like to thank all members and former members of AG Assaad, that made for a very pleasant working environment:
Luis who thoroughly read most of this document and gave loads of constructive feedback.
Jefferson, who read an early draft, was also an immense help in this thesis.
Marcin, who has been sitting next to me for the last last few years, helped me a lot with literature.
Flo, the go-to exert on numerical simulations and co-creator of the awesome HackyHour.
And all the others:
Johannes,
Stefan,
Francesco,
Manuel,
Disha,
Gabriel,
Anika,
Adrien,
Maksim,
Bimla,
Zihong,
Gaopei,
Martin B.,
Martin H.,
Helke,
Toshihiro,
João,
Sounak,
Indra,
Emilie,
Zhenjiu,
Fakher.
I am also grateful to the Fachschaft and the many awesome people there. There is almost always Club Mate in the fridge and a nice spot on the Couch to relax.
The ct.qmat AO, in particular in Würzburg, tha has been a great addition to my group of colleagues in the last two and a half years: Katha, Kathi, Maja-Lisa, Michi, Moni, Sabrina.
And many other great people at the physics faculty.
In acknowledgment of nice pastimes, I’ll just mention the following: “T-Town”, “Mr. Italy”, “Wer lange sitzt muss rosten”, “Edel(nice)-Rocker”, “SBOA”, “Segeln ohne Segeln”.
My (former) flatmates made for a relaxed atmosphere to come home to: Jonas R., Sara, Fabio and René
My parents who probably did a pretty good job with raising me and my siblings were also a net positive.
For funding I would like to thank the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1170 ToCoTronics for contributing to bulk of my PhD salary and the Research Unit FOR 1807 which also contributed significantly. I also have to thank Unitary Fund that supported my development of pyALF. Finally, the cluster of excellence ct.qmat and KONWIR took over my funding at the scheduled end of my doctoral training in 2022.
I am grateful to the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre and the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) for providing computing time on the Supercomputers SuperMUC-NG and Fritz, respectively, where the bulk of my simulations have been carried out.