Daniel Malz

Contact

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Basel #

The physics department is in Klingelbergstrasse 82. My office is on the fourth floor, 4.30.

Copenhagen #

If I am in Copenhagen my office is in Vibenshuset (Lyngbyvej 2). It’s a large building. When you enter the building, go to the end furthest away from Jagtvej. At the end of the building, you turn right and walk down the hallway until you reach the lift. Go to the fourth floor and turn left when you leave the lift. You will find our office space at the end of the hallway.

Disclaimer

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Last updated: February 2025

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Advice #

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Join us in Basel!

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Thank you for your interest in joining my group. In 2026, we move to the University of Basel and therefore I will not hire any more students or postdocs in Copenhagen.

If you are interested in working with me as a PhD student or postdoc, please send me an email with your CV and a brief statement of research interest.

You should have a background in theoretical physics or quantum information theory, but I may also consider candidates with a strong technical background from related fields. Keep reading to learn more.

Short bio

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Employment #

02/26–: Tenure-track assistant professor @ U of Basel
04/23–01/26: Assistant Professor @ KU (Copenhagen), supported by 11.9 mio DKK RECRUIT grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation
09/22–03/23: Postdoc @ TUM. Adviser: Johannes Knolle.
2018-2022: Postdoc @ MPQ. Adviser: Ignacio Cirac.

Education #

2015-2018: PhD @ U Cambridge. Adviser: Andreas Nunnenkamp
2011-2015: BA and MMath @ Trinity College, U Cambridge

Miscellanea #

If I am not in the office, I love going to the mountains, going either climbing, ski touring, or hiking (see above).
I spend a lot of time playing classical music. For the past few years I have been obsessing about piano, but I am more experienced as clarinettist, where I do a lot of chamber music (UWA), or play in orchestras (Musikakademie, NDO). You can see me in action here.
I also like to sing, currently in Sokkelund with Morten Schuldt-Jensen and previously the Munich Bach choir. You can watch us sing Mozart’s Requiem conducted by Sir Simon Rattle at the Verbier festival here.

Team

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Postdocs #

Arthur Morris (start 10/2025)

PhD students #

Bhavik Kumar (start 10/2023)
Oscar Watts (start 07/2024)
Maximilian Matzler (start 08/2025)

Former advisees #


Zhi-Yuan Wei	PhD student	2020-2024	@ MPQ, co-advised with Ignacio Cirac	now postdoc at University of Maryland with Alexey Gorshkov
Lukas König	master student	2021-2022	@ MPQ, co-advised with Flore Kunst	PhD student at Stockholm University with Emil Bergholtz
Katharina Brechtelsbauer	master student	2020-2021	@ MPQ	PhD student at University of Stuttgart with Hans-Peter Büchler