Institute for Theoretical Physics
Status: Organisation is active
| Address: | Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9 48149 Münster Germany |
Publications
Koch, E. R.; Greve, D.; Javaloyes, J.; Gurevich, S. V. (2026) In: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 202(2), 117595. doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117595 Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published | |
Blom, Kristian; Thiele, Uwe; Godec, Aljaz (2026) In: SciPost Physics, 20, 1-35. doi:10.21468/SciPostPhys.20.1.005 Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published | |
Henkel, C.; Bouillant, A.; Snoeijer J. H.; Thiele, U. (2026) In: Materials Advances, 7, 1825-1839. doi:10.1039/D5MA00936G Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published | |
Schmitz, Kai; Schröder, Tobias (2026) In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2026(01), 025. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2026/01/025 Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published | |
Blümke, Maximilian; Schmitz, Kai; Schröder, Tobias; Agarwal, Deepali; Romano, Joseph D. (2026) In: Symmetry, 18(2), 355. doi:10.3390/sym18020355 Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published |
Projects
Duration: 01/07/2026 - 30/06/2029 | 1st Funding period Funded by: DFG - Individual Grants Programme Type of project: Individual project | |
Duration: 01/03/2025 - 28/02/2030 Funded by: MKW - NRW Returning Scholars Program Type of project: Individual project | |
Duration: 21/08/2024 - 31/08/2024 Funded by: Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation Type of project: Scientific Event | |
Duration: 01/04/2024 - 31/03/2027 | 1st Funding period Funded by: DFG - Individual Grants Programme Type of project: Individual project | |
Duration: 01/01/2024 - 30/04/2025 Funded by: Uni Münster-internal funding - Ideas Lab Type of project: Internally at the University of Münster funded project |
Preisverleihungen
| Infineon Dissertation Award 2026 Awarded by: Faculty of Physics of the University of Münster Award given to: Seidel, Thomas Announced at: 09/02/2026 | Date of awarding: 09/02/2026 Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction | |
| Scout in the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme (Up-and-coming researchers) Awarded by: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) Award given to: Schmitz, Kai Announced at: 15/05/2025 | Date of awarding: 15/05/2025 Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction | |
| Infineon Dissertation Award 2025 Awarded by: Faculty of Physics of the University of Münster Award given to: Wiggering, Luca Paolo Announced at: 24/01/2025 | Date of awarding: 31/01/2025 Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction | |
| Förderpreis der Universitätsgesellschaft Münster 2024 Awarded by: Universitätsgesellschaft Münster Award given to: Schmitz, Kai Announced at: 12/06/2024 | Date of awarding: 03/07/2024 Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction | |
| Dissertation Prize of the Faculty of Physics 2023 Awarded by: University of Münster Award given to: Moreno Valero, Laura Announced at: 01/12/2023 | Date of awarding: 12/01/2024 Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction |
Promotionen
| Cosmic Strings and Beyond: From Topological Defects to Gravitational Waves Candidate: Schröder, Tobias | Supervisors: Schmitz, Kai; Heitger, Jochen | Reviewers: Schmitz, Kai; Heitger, Jochen; Blanco-Pillado, Jose Juan; Andronic, Anton; Thiele, Uwe Period of time: 01/05/2022 - 09/10/2025 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster | |
| Quantum Field Theoretic and Combinatorial Perspectives on Intersection Numbers on the Moduli Space of Complex Curves: Explicit calculations in the Quartic… Candidate: Jost, Finn Bjarne | Supervisors: Wulkenhaar, Raimar; Schmitz, Kai | Reviewers: Wulkenhaar, Raimar; Schürmann, Jörg Period of time: 01/09/2021 - 10/12/2024 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster | |
| Analysis of the structure of the proton using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods Candidate: Risse, Peter | Supervisors: Kovarik, Karol; Heitger, Jochen | Reviewers: Kovarik, Karol; Heitger, Jochen; Andronic, Anton Period of time: 01/10/2020 - 30/06/2024 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster | |
| Soft-Emission Effects in High-Energy Processes Candidate: ??? | Supervisors: Kulesza, Anna; Andronic, Anton | Reviewers: Kulesza, Anna; Andronic, Anton Period of time: 01/04/2021 - 27/06/2024 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster | |
| Lattice QCD determination of baryon sigma terms Candidate: Petrak, Pia Leonie Jones | Supervisors: Heitger, Jochen; Weinheimer, Christian | Reviewers: Heitger, Jochen; Collins, Sara Period of time: 01/11/2020 - 24/05/2024 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster |
Habilitationen
Control and Selection of Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Dissipative Systems Candidate: Gurevich, Svetlana | Reviewers: Thiele, UwePeriod of time: until 10/07/2017 Habilitation procedure finished at: Habilitation procedure at University of Münster | |
Lattice quantum field theory beyond the standard model Candidate: Bergner, Georg | Reviewers: Münster, GernotPeriod of time: until 23/01/2017 Habilitation procedure finished at: Habilitation procedure at University of Münster | |
Lattice simulation of light fermionic degrees of freedom with Wilson fermions Candidate: Farchioni, Federico | Reviewers: ???Period of time: until 24/11/2008 Habilitation procedure finished at: Habilitation procedure at University of Münster | |
Fluctuations and bifurcations in complex systems with time delays and mean field forces Candidate: Frank, Till Daniel | Reviewers: ???Period of time: until 12/06/2006 Habilitation procedure finished at: Habilitation procedure at University of Münster | |
Non-perturbative renormalization in Quantum Chromodynamics and Heavy Quark Effective Theory Candidate: Heitger, Jochen | Reviewers: ???Period of time: until 12/12/2005 Habilitation procedure finished at: Habilitation procedure at University of Münster |
Vorträge
| Gravitational waves from cosmic strings Schmitz, Kai (22/01/2026) Cosmic Strings in the Desert, Abu Dhabi Type of talk: scientific talk | |
| PTA searches for GWs from the big bang Schmitz, Kai (13/01/2026) Seminar Fundamentale Wechselwirkungen, Universität Freiburg Type of talk: scientific talk | |
| Beben in der Raumzeit: Mit Gravitationswellen von Schwarzen Löchern bis zum Urknall Schmitz, Kai (27/11/2025) Vortrag am Gymnasium St. Mauritz, Münster Type of talk: scientific talk | |
| BSM physics at the PTA frontier Schmitz, Kai (25/11/2025) CPPS Seminar, Universität Siegen Type of talk: scientific talk | |
| Quantenrelikte aus dem frühen Universum Schmitz, Kai (15/11/2025) Abschlussveranstaltung Quantenjahr, Münster Type of talk: scientific talk |