Scientific career

since 2016		Permanent Staff Scientist, Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
2009–2016		Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
2007–2009		Postdoctoral Fellow, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
2003–2007		PhD in Theoretical Physics, ETH Zürich and Paul Scherrer Institute, Supervisors: Ch. Mudry and M. Sigrist

Awards

2015		Walter Schottky Prize (jointly with Frank Pollmann)
2003		Polya Prize for best diploma, awarded by ETH Zürich

Open positions

We are always looking for talented candidates interesting in performing master projecs, PhD theses, or postdoctoral stays in our group. If you are interested in our research topics and have excellent qualifications, please send me an e-mail. Candidates for PhD projects are encouraged to apply at one of our research schools:

• IMPRS-CMS: Apply online
• MPGC-QM: Apply online

Research fields and interests

• Topological phenomena in condensed matter systems
• Unconventional superconductivity
• Non-equilibrium phenomena in closed quantum systems
• Disordered systems and Anderson localization
• Strongly correlated electronic systems
• Synthetic quantum matter
• Spin and orbital frustration in quantum magnets
• Quantum computation and quantum information

Group members

• Postdocs: Xianxin Wu, Moritz Hirschmann
• PhD students: Andreas Leonhardt, Kirill Alpin, Niclas Heinsdorf
• Master students: N.N.

Former group members

• Postdocs: Darshan Joshi (now at Harvard), Yuxin Zhao (now Professor at Nanjing University), Satoshi Ikegaya (now at Nagoya University)
• PhD students: Wenbin Rui (now at Hongkong University), Raquel Queiroz (now Professor at Columbia University)
• Master students: Sayan Banerjee, Wan Yee Yau, Berkay Kilic, Henri Menke, Moritz Hirschmann, Johannes Hofmann
• Internship students: Jonathan Zhang, Mohamed Shaaban, Xueyang Song, Alex Toews, Darrick Lee, Michael Förster

Talks and lectures

• Tutoral on "Topological superconductivity" held at the APS March Meeting, Chicago (March 2022):
  tutorial_APS_2022_schnyder.pdf 
• Lectures on "Topological semimetals" held at the Autumn School in Jülich, Germany (September 2020):
  topological_semimetals.pdf 
• Lectures on "Topological band crossings in semimetals" held at the DIPC in San Sebastian, Spain (August 2018):
  lecture_san_sebastian.pdf 
• Lectures on "Topological insulators and superconductors" held at the University of Stuttgart (January 2016):
  lecture1.pdf  lecture2.pdf lecture3.pdf lecture4.pdf
• Lectrues on "Topological insulators and superconductors" held at the 25th Jyväskylä Summer School (August 2015, Jyväskylä University, Finland): lecture1.pdf  lecture2.pdf  lecture3.pdf  lecture4.pdf   lecture5.pdf
• Lectures on "Topological aspects in condensed matter physics" held at the Topical School in Theoretical Physics Nancy (June 2014, Unversité de Lorraine, France): lecture1.pdf lecture2.pdf lecture3.pdf  lecture4.pdf
• Talk about "Crystalline topological semi-metals" given at the IFIMAC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain (May 2017): schnyder_ifimac_madrid_2017.pdf
• Talk about "Topological materials with reflection symmetry" given at the KITP Workshop on "New Phases and Emergent Phenomena in Correlated Materials with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling" (September 2015, Santa Barbara, USA): schnyder_KITP_lsmatt_2015.pdf
• Talk about "Amplitude oscillations in non-equilibrium superconductors" given at the Workshop on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (November 2013, Schloss Ringberg, Germany): amplitude_oscillations_schnyder.pdf