Group members
Prof. David Egger
Principal investigator
Department of Physics
Technical University of Munich
James-Franck-Str. 1/I, room 2077
85748 Garching, Germany
Curriculum Vitae
Carola Kappauf
Office administration
office: room 3284
phone: +4989-289-14627
Dr. Sebastián Caicedo-Dávila
Postdoctoral fellow
office: room 2069
phone: +4989-289-12467
Frederico Delgado
PhD student
office: room 2059
phone: +4989-289-12467
Dr. Christian Gehrmann
Postdoctoral fellow
office: room 2071
phone: +4989-289-12468
Manuel Grumet
PhD student
office: room 2071
phone: +4989-289-12468
Dr. Franziska Hegner
Postdoctoral fellow
jointly with Ian Sharp
office: room 2059
phone: +4989-289-12466
Dr. Bernhard Kretz
Postdoctoral fellow
office: room 2075
phone: +4989-289-12467
Christian Reverón Baecker
MSc student
office: room 2073
phone: +4989-289-12466
Maximilian Schilcher
PhD student
office: room 2061
phone: +4989-289-12466
Martin Schwade
PhD student
office: room 2061
phone: +4989-289-12466
Stefan Seidl
PhD student
office: room 2073
phone: +4989-289-12466
Elise Sirotti
PhD student
jointly with Ian Sharp
office: room S309 (WSI)
phone: +4989-289-11448
Xiangzhou Zhu
PhD student
office: room 2069
phone: +4989-289-12467
BSc students and interns
Markus Amaseder (BSc student)
Franz Pöschl (BSc student)
Clara Scarpatetti (BSc student)
Group in June 2022
From left to right: Clara Scarpatetti, Sebastián Caicedo-Dávila, Elise Sirotti, Frederico Delgado, Stefan Seidl, Bernhard Kretz, Christian Gehrmann (just graduated!), Max Schilcher, Franziska Hegner, Manuel Grumet, Martin Schwade, Christian Reverón Baecker, Xiangzhou Zhu, David Egger.
Not in the picture: Carola Kappauf, Markus Amaseder, Franz Pöschl.
Group in August 2021
Sitting from left to right: Xiangzhou Zhu, Franziska Hegner, Elise Sirotti, Sebastián Caicedo-Dávila, Manuel Grumet.
Standing from left to right: David Egger, Martin Schwade, Christian Gehrmann, Frederico Delgado, Max Schilcher, Stefan Seidl, Karin Thalmann.
Not in the picture: Carola Kappauf, Bernhard Kretz, Shravan Godse, Jonas Oldenstädt, Britta Seegebrecht.
Group in December 2018
From left to right: David Egger, Lisi Wruß, Max Schilcher, Berni Kretz, Daniel Angerer, Robert Hrdina, Hubert Beck, Stefan Seidl, Christian Gehrmann
Group in June 2017
From left to right: Stefan Seidl, Keshav Srinivasan, David Egger, Christian Gehrmann
Former Members
Shravan Godse: Shravan was a summer intern in the group in 2021. He will be continuing his Ph.D. studies at Carnegie Mellon University.
Karin Thalmann: Karin was an M.Sc. student in the group in 2021. She will be continuing her Ph.D. studies with Michael Thoss at U. Freiburg.
Stefan Böhm: Stefan was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2020. He will be continuing his M.Sc. studies at TUM.
Waldemar Schmunk: Waldemar was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2020. He will be continuing his M.Sc. studies at TUM.
Karina Houska: Karina was a B.Sc. student in the group in 2020. She will be continuing her M.Sc. studies at TUM.
Daniel Angerer: Daniel was an M.Sc. student in the group from 2018-2020. He is now working at TWT GmbH.
Hubert Beck: Hubert was an M.Sc. student in the group from 2018-2019. He will work as a volunteer in Cambodia.
Robert Hrdina: Robert was the Office Manager in the group from 2017-2019. He will be continuing his work in the administration at the University of Regensburg.
Dr. Elisabeth Wruß: Lisi was a Post Doc in the group in 2018 and 2019. She will be travelling the world.
Harikrishnan K.P: Hari was a visiting undergraduate student in the group in 2018 and 2019. He will be continuing his graduate studies at Cornell University.
Arun Sagotra: Arun was a visiting graduate student in the group in 2018. He will be continuing with his graduate studies at UNSW, Sydney.
Keshav Srinivasan: Keshav was a visiting undergraduate student in the group in 2017 and 2018. He will be continuing his graduate studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Theory of Functional Energy Materials (TheoFEM) 