I have recently completed my PhD studies, having worked in the Strongly Correlated Systems Group of Prof. Dr. Jan M. Pawlowski and partly also with Prof. Dr. Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu.
I was a member of ...

• ... the Research Training Group Simulational Methods in Physics (now replaced by a similar group, see here), funded by LGF.
  
• ... the Graduate School of Fundamental Physics.
• ... EMMI.

A large part of the work on my PhD thesis was devoted to extensive numerical simulations in the framework of lattice gauge theory, with a focus on Yang–Mills theory.
My research interests include

• confinement mechanism in QCD
• gauge fixing methods
• stochastic quantization
• phase diagram of QCD
• high-performance and parallel computing
  (enabled by the ITP cluster and bwGRiD)

Publications

• PhD thesis (completed 11/2010, defended 01/2011)

  • Aspects of confinement in QCD from lattice simulations

• Journal articles

  • Axel Maas, Jan M. Pawlowski, Daniel Spielmann, André Sternbeck, Lorenz von Smekal
    Strong-coupling study of the Gribov ambiguity in lattice Landau gauge
    arXiv:0912.4203, Eur. Phys. J. C 68 (2010) 183–195

  • Jan M. Pawlowski, Daniel Spielmann, Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu
    Lattice Landau gauge with stochastic quantisation
    arXiv:0911.4921, Nucl. Phys. B 830 (2010) 291–314

• Diploma thesis in physics and M.A. thesis in philosophy: see below

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Teaching

• Tutorials in
  • theoretical mechanics,
  • electrodynamics,
  • quantum mechanics and
  • statistical physics
  at the universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg

Previously

• 09/2007: M.A. in Philosophy (1st major) and German language and literature (2nd major), University of Tübingen.
  M.A. thesis on a subject from the analytic philosophy of mind.

• 09/2006: Diploma in Physics, University of Tübingen.
  Diploma thesis on confinement in Sp(2) lattice gauge theory, carried out in the QFT & Particle Physics Group at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Tübingen.
  My thesis advisors were Prof. Dr. Kurt Langfeld and Prof. Dr. Hugo Reinhardt.