Frank Schindler

Hi! I'm a lecturer in condensed matter theory at Imperial College London.

I'm currently looking for a postdoc to start in 2025, please see the announcement on jobs.ac.uk and email me in case you have any questions.

My research is on topological phases of matter, and more generally on topological phenomena in quantum materials, metamaterials, and quantum dynamics.

You can find my publications on arXiv and Google Scholar.

Contact

f.schindler@imperial.ac.uk, +44 (0) 20 7594 6807
806 Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK

Research group

At present I am supervising 4 PhD students and 5 master students. For more details, please see my group webpage Theory of Topological Matter.

There will be one more postdoctoral position in my group starting 2026, with announcement to follow in autumn 2025.

Brief CV

• 2024 - now: UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow
• 2023 - now: Lecturer / Assistant Professor @ Imperial College London


• 2020 - 2023: Postdoc @ Princeton Center for Theoretical Science
• 2019: Graduate Fellow @ Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
• 2016 - 2020: PhD @ University of Zurich (Advisor: Titus Neupert)


• 2015 - 2016: Part III Maths @ University of Cambridge
• 2012 - 2015: BSc Physics @ University of Munich

Awards

• James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics (2024)
• Sam B. Treiman Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton University (2022)
• Award in Computational Physics, Swiss Physical Society (2020)
• Special Prize of the Mercator Award Jury, University of Zurich (2019)
• Studentship in Mathematics, Examination Prize, and Senior Scholarship,
  Trinity College Cambridge (2016)
• Full Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (2014)