Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Keywords: Out-of-equilibrium dynamics, quantum many-body dynamics, quantum simulation, quantum control, machine learning for quantum technologies, optimization landscapes
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Following his undergraduate studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Marin obtained a PhD in physics from Boston University in 2017. He then joined UC Berkeley’s Condensed Matter Theory Center as a Gordon and Betty Moore postdoctoral fellow. After a short stay at Sofia University as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow, he is now a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany.
His group works on various aspects of out-of-equilibrium dynamics, including quantum engineering, thermalization and equilibration, and control of interacting few and many-body systems. Together with his students and postdocs, he develops analytical theories and numerical approaches to understand the bizarre behavior of collective phenomena away from equilibrium. He has made significant contributions to the field of periodically driven systems and optimal control, and has pioneering applications of reinforcement learning in quantum physics. Marin is also a co-developer of the open-source Python package for quantum many-body systems — QuSpin (https://quspin.github.io/QuSpin/) — a widely used tool to investigate the dynamics of quantum many-body systems.
Marin is a recipient of several prestigious awards, including the DAAD Prize ‘for the outstanding achievements of a foreign student at German universities’, the Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize, the Alvaro Roccaro Memorial Prize ‘in recognition of outstanding achievement overall in physics by a graduate student’, and the John V. Atanasoff President Award ‘for outstanding contributions to the field of artificial intelligence applied to quantum technologies’. He is a holder of a VIHREN grant (2020) and an ERC Starting Grant (2023). He serves as an editorial board member of the journal Communications Physics (Nature) and as a reviewer for prestigious journals and scientific panels across the world.