Congratulations to Thomas Sheerin, who successfully defended his PhD thesis ("Field Theories of Strongly Correlated, Two-Dimensional Metals: Phases and Criticality", co-supervised by Chris Hooley) on Wednesday 12th November 2025.

Welcome to our new PhD students, Mya Andrews and Liv Hammer, who joined the group in September 2025!  Mya is working with Chris Hooley on tensor-network-path-integral approaches to dynamics and topology; Liv is working with Federico Carollo on open quantum systems and non-equilibrium phase transitions.

Congratulations to Dr Federico Carollo, who has been included in this year's Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List!

Many thanks to Prof. Yurij (Yurko) Holovatch, of the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, for visiting us in September 2025!

Many thanks to Marcel Cech and Prof. Igor Lesanovsky, of the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Tübingen, for visiting us in June 2025!

Thank you to everyone who took part in, organised, or helped fund the workshop series CovenDRI ("Developing Research Independence"), which took place at Coventry in spring 2025.

Congratulations to Paulo J. Paulino, who successfully defended his PhD thesis (Supervisor: Federico Carollo) in May 2025. He has now moved to a postdoctoral position in Mallorca. 

Welcome to Dr Colin Rylands, who joined the group in April 2025 as Assistant Professor!  He works on non-equilibrium quantum systems, entanglement entropy, and strongly correlated systems.

A current member of the Stat. Phys. group, Dr Federico Carollo, and a soon-to-be member, Dr Colin Rylands (from 1st April), have both had their work featured in Physical Review Letters’ highly selective collection of the year 2024, in the ‘Quantum information, science, and technology’ category.  Congratulations!

Welcome to Dr Federico Carollo, who joined the group in November 2024 as Associate Professor!  He works on non-equilibrium quantum many-body systems, open quantum dynamics, and large deviations.

We are advertising two fully funded PhD studentships for a September 2025 start: "Non-equilibrium phases and phase transitions in many-body open quantum systems," supervised by Federico Carollo, and "Quantum spin systems: topology and non-equilibrium dynamics via path integrals over tensor networks," supervised by Chris Hooley.  The application deadline is 27th May, though if you're interested please do contact the supervisor(s) in question well in advance of this date!

On Tuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th February 2025 we are hosting Quantum Workshop Coventry: to submit an abstract or to register to attend, click here.