Joachim Ankerhold

Professional Activities

• since 2014 Co-Director of the Institute for Complex Quantum Systems
• since 2014 Acting Director of the Humboldt Center for Philosophy
• 2012 - 2016 Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences
• since 2011 Executive board, Conference of Physics Departments (KFP)
• 2009 - 2012 Dean of Physics Studies

Career

• since 2007 Full Professor (W3), Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm
• 2004 - 2007 Heisenberg-Professor of the German Science Foundation (DFG), extended visits at CEA Saclay (Paris), Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), Aalto University (Helsinki), University of Geneva
• 2001 Habilitation
• 1998 - 2004 Assistent Professor (C1), University of Freiburg
• 1996 - 1998 Feodor-Lynen Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), Dep.of Chemistry (Prof. Pechukas), Columbia University (NYC)
• 1994 - 1996 Research Associate (Prof. Grabert), University of Freiburg

Awards

• Harris Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Dartmouth College, USA (Endowed chair of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Harris Foundation), 2014
• Aalto University, Helsinki, Distinguished Visiting Professor 2013/2014
• Europhysics Letters and Chemical Physics, Distinguished Referee 2013
• Heisenberg-Professor of the German Science Foundation, 2004 - 2007
• Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 1996 - 1998
• Best PhD Thesis Award of the University of Essen, 1994

(selection)

• J. Tuorila, J. Stockburger, T. Ala-Nissila, Joachim Ankerhold, and Mikko Möttönen, System-environment correlations in qubit initialization and control, Phys. Rev. Res. 1, 013004 (2019)
• J. Gosner, B. Kubala, and Joachim Ankerhold, Quantum properties of a strongly driven Josephson junction, Phys. Rev. B 99, 144524 (2019)
• S. Dambach, Andrew Armour, B. Kubala, and Joachim Ankerhold, Josephson junction cavity systems as cousins of the quantum optical micromaser, Phys. Script. 94, 104001 (2019)
• S. Dambacha, P. Egetmeyer, Joachim Ankerhold, and B. Kubala, Quantum thermodynamics with a Josephson-photonics setup, Europ. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 227, 2053 (2019)
• Andrew Armour, B. Kubala, and Joachim Ankerhold, Noise switching at a dynamical critical point in a cavity-conductor hybrid, Phys. Rev. B 96, 214509 (2017)
• R. Schmidt, J.T. Stockburger, and Joachim Ankerhold, Almost local generation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement in nonequilibrium open systems, Phys. Rev. A 88, 052321 (2013)
• V. Gramich, B. Kubala, S. Rohrer, and Joachim Ankerhold, From Coulomb-Blockade to Nonlinear Quantum Dynamics in a Superconducting Circuit with a Resonator, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 247002 (2013)
• R. Schmidt, S. Rohrer, Joachim Ankerhold, and J.T. Stockburger, Cooling of quantum systems through optimal control and dissipation, Phys. Script. T151, 014034 (2012)

• Professor, Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm, Germany
• Acting Director of the Humboldt Center for Philosophy
• Co-Director of the Institute for Complex Quantum Systems
• Executive board, Conference of Physics Departments (KFP)

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