ETH - Institute for Theoretical Physics - Troyer, Matthias, Prof. Dr.

7/2005 -	Full professor for computational physics at the ETH Zürich
6/2002 - 6/2005	Associate professor for computational physics at the ETH Zürich
3/2000 - 5/2002	Assistant professor for theoretical physics at the ETH Zürich
9/1998 - 3/2000	Senior scientist and lecturer at the ETH Zürich; group leader of the Computational Physics group.
4/1998 - 6/1998	Guest lecturer at the ETH Zürich
9/1997 - 8/1998	Fellow of the "Center of Excellence" of the Japanese Ministry for Science and Education at the University of Tokyo
9/1995 - 8/1997	Postdoctoral Fellow of the "Japan Society for the Promotion of Science" at the University of Tokyo
8/1994 - 8/1995	PostDoc at the Interdisciplinary Project Center for Supercomputing and the ETH Zürich
5/1991-7/1994	Assistant at the ETH Zürich
7/1989-9/1989	Summer student in the data handling division of CERN
1/1985-8/1988	UNIX system administrator at the Krankenhaus der barmherzigen Schwestern (Linz, Austria)

Academic career

10/1986 - 6/1988:	University studies in "Technischer Physik" at the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
10/1988 - 4/1991:	Diploma in physics at the ETH Zürich.
5/1991 - 7/1994:	Interdisciplinary PhD thesis at the ETH Zürich.

Medals and Awards

7/1985	Silver medal at the International Chemistry Olympiade
7/1986	Gold medal at the International Chemistry Olympiade
1/1995	Medal of ETH Zürich for excellent PhD thesis
2/2000	Awarded an Assiatant Professorship by the Swiss National Science Foundation

Professional Memberships and Activities (selected)

5/2005-	Member of the research initiative commission (K-INIT) of ETH Zürich
3/2005-3/2009	Member of the executive committee, Division of Computational Physics of the American Physical Society
7/2004-	Elected as General Member of the Aspen Center for Physics
12/2003-	Editor of the online "Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment" (JSTAT)
3/2002-4/2004	President of the Swiss High Performance Computing Society SPEEDUP
2002-2004	Member of the Swiss HPCN Grid Project Management Committee
1/2002-	Initiated the ALPS project, an open source C++ project for the development of simulation tools for quantum lattice models.
3/2000-	Executive Committee Member of the Swiss High Performance Computing Society SPEEDUP
1/2000-	Head of the Beowulf Cluster Steering Committee at ETH Zürich

Research Interests and Experience

High performance scientific simulations on various architectures:
- Vector supercomputers
- Massively parallel computers
- Beowulf clusters
Generic programming and software design for scientific simulations
- Design and implemantation of generic libraries for numerical simulation
- Benchmarking of generic programming techniques for scientific simulations
- Open-source development of libraries and applications for classical and quantum lattice models
Algorithmic developments
- Global-update algorithms for quantum Monte Carlo simulations
- Optimized ensembles for classical and quantum Monte Carlo simulations
- Novel approaches to quantum simulations
Simulations of exotic phases and phase transitions in quantum lattice models:
- Phase transitions in quantum magnets
- Quantitative modeling of quantum magnets
- Phase transitions and super solids in bosonic systems
- Dissipative quantum phase transitions
- Novel phases in strongly correlated fermionic systems
- Exotic phases with topological order and their application to topological quantum computation
- Properties of ultra-cold atomic gases in optical lattices
Multi-scale simulations of relativistic and quantum systems
- Massively parallel simulation of electron guns for X-ray lasers
- Realistic simulation of quantum dots (in planning)

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