Chahan Kropf

Via San Faustino

25122 Brescia Italy

T +39 331 824 4219

B chahan.kropf@gmail.com

Date of birth : 01.08.1988

Work

Okt. 2017 - PostDoc, Università cattolica del sacro cuore, Brescia (IT).

Grant: Full research grant from the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) (Okt. 2017- Okt. 2019)

Education

Mar. 2013 -Apr. 2017

PhD in Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg-im-Breisgau (DE).

Stipend: Full scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Mar.2014 -Mar. 2017)

PhD thesis

Title: Quantum dynamics induced by structured disorder

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Buchleitner

2009-2011 Master of science in physics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg (DE).Excellent

Master thesis

Title : Time-averaging of the nuclear spin-spin interaction Hamiltonian in solid state

NMR ; Recoupling of non-secular terms

Supervisor : Dr. Boris Fine

2006-2009 Bachelor of science in physics, Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel (CH).Cum laude

2003-2006 Maturité fédérale, Lycée Denis-de-Rougemont, Neuchâtel (CH).Magna cum laude

Scienti�c meetings

Talks & Posters

Mar. 2017 Contributed talk, Mallorca (SP), QuProCS Annual Meeting.

Mar. 2017 Contributed talk, Mainz (DE), DPG annuak meeting.

Feb. 2017 Poster, Dresden (DE), Quantum-Classical Transition in Many-Body Systems: Indistinguisha-bility, Interference and Interactions.

Jun. 2016 Invited talk, Torun (PL), 48th symposium on mathematical physics.

Jun. 2016 Invited talk, Strasbourg (FR), International workshop on quantum physics.

Mar. 2016 Contributed talk, Hannover (DE), DPG annual meeting.

Jun. 2015 Contributed talk, Warsaw (PL), 7th Meeting on Chaos and Localization.

Apr. 2015 Contributed talk, Dorfgastein (AT), Workshop Rethinking foundations of physics.

Mar. 2015 Contributed talk, Heidelberg (DE), DPG annual meeting.

Nov. 2014 Poster, Dresden (DE), Atomic physics workshop.

Mar. 2014 Contributed talk, Berlin (DE), DPG annual meeting.

Feb. 2014 Contributed talk, Riezlern (AT), EAS meeting.

Schools, conferences & visits

Feb. 2018 Visit, Ansan (SK), Visit of Prof. J. Bae at the ERICA Hanyang university, 4 weeks.

Aug. 2017 Summer school, Neubeurn (DE), Dynamics and control of dynamical systems, 2 weeks.

May 2016 Summer school, Esfahan (IR), Isfahan-Freiburg summer school on quantum science, 1 week.

Feb. 2015 Winter school, Freiburg (DE), COST Physics school: New trends in many-particle quantumtransport, 2 weeks.

Okt. 2015 Visit, Moscow (RU), Visit of Prof. B.V. Fine at the Skolkovo Institute of Technology, 2 weeks.

Publications• Chahan M. Kropf, Vyacheslav N. Shatokhin, and Andreas Buchleitner. Open system model

for quantum dynamical maps with classical noise and corresponding master equations. OpenSyst. & Inf. Dyn., 24:1740012, 2017.

• Chahan M. Kropf, Jonas Kohlrautz, Jürgen Haase, and Boris V. Fine. Anomalous longitudinalrelaxation of nuclear spins in CaF2. Fortschr. Phys., doi:10.1002/prop.201600023, 2016.

• Chahan M. Kropf, Clemens Gneiting, and Andreas Buchleitner. E�ective Dynamics of Disor-dered Quantum Systems. Phys. Rev. X, 6(3):031023, 2016.

• B. V. Fine, T. A. Elsayed, C. M. Kropf, and A. S. de Wijn. Absence of exponential sensitivityto small perturbations in nonintegrable systems of spins 1/2. Phys. Rev. E, 89(1):012923, 2014.

• Chahan M. Kropf and Boris V. Fine. Nonsecular resonances for the coupling between nuclearspins in solids. Phys. Rev. B, 86(9):094401, 2012.

Experiences

Teaching

WS 2015/16 TA, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg (DE), Teaching assitant for the course �Experimentalphysics 3� (Atomic and molecular physics).

WS 2014/15 TA, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg (DE), Teaching assitant for the course �Theoreticalphysics 5� (Statistical physics and thermodynamics).

SS 2014 TA, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg (DE), Teaching assitant for the course �Theoreticalphysics 4� (Quantum mechanics).

WS 2013/14 TA, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg (DE), Teaching assitant for the course �Theoreticalphysics 1� (Mathematical tools for physicist).

SS 2013 TA, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg (DE), Teaching assitant for the course �Experimentalphysics 2� (Electrodynamics).

SS 2011 TA, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg (DE), SS Teaching assitant for the course �Theo-retical physics 2� (Lagrange mechanics and thermodynamics).

WS 2011 TA, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg (DE), I was teaching assitant for the physics ex-periments for students in the second semester of Bachelor.

Nov. 2008 College supply teacher, Lycée de Porrentruy, Porrentruy (CH), I taught physics for french-german bilingual classes (10-12th grade).

Selected jobs

Jan.-Feb.2013

Scienti�c collaborator, SPACE-X, Neuchâtel (CH), I studied the noise sources in a CMOSAPS photo-sensor of type Foveon. In particular, I investigated the optimal working temeraturein outer-space for the future ESA missions EXOMARS and MARCOPOLO.

Sept.-Dec.2012

Scienti�c collaborator, Prof. B.V.Fine, Institute of theoretical physics Heidelberg (DE), Iinvestigated with a numerical simulation of the NMR magic-echo sequence the link betweenthe Lyapunov exponent describing chaos at the microscopic level of a single classical spin andthe macroscopic statistical variable of the total magnetization.

Feb.-Mar.2012, Apr.2010 and

Aug. 2009 -Sept. 2009

Research assistant, Heliotis AG., Root D4 (CH), I worked on the development and theanalysis of optical systems and electronic boards for commercial applications.

Voluntary work

Feb. 2015 -Apr. 2016

Co-initiator and leader, Germany, I co-initiated and lead the national working team forPhD's inside of the jDPG (young section of the German physical society).

Apr. 2015 -Sept. 2015

Co-initiator, Baden-Württemberg (DE), We initiated the "Forum der Doktorandenvertretun-gen Baden-Württemberg", a state-wide forum for all the local PhD representations.

Jan. 2014 -Jul. 2014

Co-initiator, Freiburg im Breisgau (DE), We built up a representation of the PhD-studentsof the institute of physics at the Albert-Ludwigs university of Freiburg.

Aug. 2013 -Nov. 2015

Co-founder and leader, Freiburg im Breisgau (DE), I co-founded and lead the regionalcommittee of the jDPG (youth section of the German physical society) in Freiburg.

Sept. 2010 -Step. 2011

Studentshome representative, Heidelberg (DE).

Jan. 2004 -Jun. 2005

Football coach, FC Bolligen (CH).

Aug. 2003and Aug.

2004

Students exchange with voluntary work in Cuba , with ARO international (Montreal,CA).

Computer skills

Programminglanguages

C, Python, assembler, prolog, labview, html

O�ce LATEX, O�ce tools, Inkscape

Scienti�cprogramms

Mathematica, Matlab, GNUplot

Languages

Swiss german Mother tongue

French Mother tongue

German Expert

English Expert 2009 TOEFL InternetBased 108/120

Spanish Intermediate 2011 B1 +

Russian Beginner