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Delta ITP visitor programme

The Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics runs an active visitor programme for senior and junior researchers, as well as PhD students. All Delta staff members can continuously send in proposals for short, medium or long-term visitors that would benefit the synergy and research programme of Delta ITP.
Visitors

More details and the application form can be found in the guidelines.

Visitors in 2023

Medium (2-6 weeks) and long term (more than 6 weeks) visitors 

  • Babak Haghighat, Yau Mathematical Science Center 
    Host: Thomas Grimm. From 01-11-2022 till 31-01-2023
  • Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania 
    Host: Prof. R.H.H.G van Roij. From 01-02-2023 till 31-03-2023
  • Toshiki Kurita, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe 
    Host: Elisa Chisari. From 26-02-2023 till 18-03-2023
  • Denis Kurlov, University of Basel, Switzerland 
    Host: Vladimir Gritsev. From 01-03-2023 till 20-03-2023 
  • Suvodip Mukherjee, Tata Institute fro Fundamental Physics, Mumbai
    Host: Samaya Nissanke. From 13-03-2023 till 19-03-2023
  • Gregory Ernest Gold, The University of Queensland, School of Mathematics and Physics 
    Host: Subodh P. Patil. From 06-06-2023 till 03-07-2023
  • Prof. Anuradha Misra, University of Mumbai 
    Host: Eric Laenen. From 05-06-2023 till 03-07-2023 
  • Guoxing Wang, Zhejiang University, China
    Host: Eric Laenen. From 01-0x-2023 till 30-06-2023
  • Robert Konink, Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Host: Dirk Schuricht. From 09-10-2023 till 24-11-2023
  • Maria Tsedrik, Edinburgh University
    Host: Alessandra Silvestri. From 04-10-2023 till 04-12-2023

Visiting PhD Students

  • Yibei Li, Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics, Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China  
    Host: Wouter Waalewijn. From 01-02-2023 till 30-06-2023 
  • Simon Caletti, Genoa University and INFN Genoa    
    Host: Wouter Waalewijn. From 01-02-2023 till 31-07-2023
  • Sergio Ernesto Aguilar Gutierrez, KU Leuven 
    Host: Jan Pieter van der Schaar. From 01-02-2023 till 31-03-2023
  • Amelia Henkel, University of New Hampshire 
    Host: Samaya Nissanke. From 09-02-2023 till 20-03-2023 

Undergraduate projects

  • Srujan Killada, IIT Kanpur, India 
    Host: Eric Laenen. From 05-05-2023 till 26-07-2023 
Visitors in previous years
  • 2022

    Medium (2-6 weeks) and long term (more than 6 weeks) visitors:

    • Ian Stewart, MIT
      Host: Wouter Waalewijn. From 19-03-2022 till 26-03-2022
    • Hosho Katsura, University of Tokyo
      Host: Dirk Schuricht. From 06-10-2022 till 02-11-2022
    • Giorgio Torrieri, Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
      Host: Umut Gursoy. From: 12-02-2022 till 25-02-22
    • Tanguy Grall, Cambridge University
      Host: Daniel Baumann. From 10-01-2022 till 18-04-2022 
    • Daniele Gaggero, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid    
      Host: Gianfranco Bertone. From 01-11-2021 till 30-04-2022
    • Micha Berkooz, Weizmann institute 
      Host: Jan de Boer. From 01-10-2021 till 31-01-2022
    • Emil Yuzbashyan, Rutgers University
      Host: Vladimir Gritsev. From 05-10-2022 tot 05-11-2022

    Visiting PhD Students

    • Ankit Aggarwal, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 
      Host: Alejandra Castro. From 01-06-2022 tot 31-12-2022
    • Irvin Martinez, University of Capetown 
      Host: Tanja Hinderer. From 01-03-2022 till 23-04-2022
    • Mir Mehedi Faruk, McGill University 
      Host: Ben Freivogel. From 01-03-2022till 31-08-2022
    • Pedro Afonso Cosme e Silva, University of Lisbon 
      Host: Lars Fritz. From 28-05-2022 till 20-12-2022
  • 2021

    Medium (2-6 weeks) and long term (more than 6 weeks) visitors:

    • Elena Pinetti, Paris 
      Host: Shinichiro Ando. From 01-04-2021 till 10-07-2021
    • Marina Badaracco, Institute for Astronomy & Space Physics, Argentina 
      Host: Elisa Chisari. From 01-09-2022 till 30-11-2021
    • Claire Moran, University of Jena
      Host: Umut Gursoy. From 25-11-2021 till 25-12-2021

    Visiting PhD Students

    • Ayngaran Thavanesan, Cambridge University 
      Host: Subodh Patil. From 01-02-2021 till 31-07-2021
    • William Barker, University of Cambridge
      Host: Subodh Patil. From 01-07-2021 till 30-09-2021
    • Raphaela Wutte, Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria 
      Host: Alejandra Castro. From 01-07-2021 till  01-01-2022
  • 2020

    Medium (2-6 weeks) and long term (more than 6 weeks) visitors:

    • Shahab Joudaki, University of Oxford 
      Host: Elisa Chisari. From 15-03-2020 till 15-04-2020
    • Florian Kuhnel, U. Of Stockholm 
      Host: Gianfranco Bertone. From 01-02-2020 till 31-05-2020
    • Iain Stewart, MIT 
      Host: Wouter Waalewijn. From 19-07-2020 till 01-08-2020

    Visiting PhD Students

    • Ankit Aggarwal, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
      Host: Alejandra Castro. From 01-03-2020 till 30-11-2020
    • Eyzo Stouten, University of Wuppertal, Germany
      Host: Vladimir Gritsev. From 06-04-2020 till 06-07-2020
    • Rodrigo Arouca de Albuquerque, Utrecht University 
      Host: Cristiane Morais Smith. From 01-08-2020 till 31-10-2020
  • 2019

    Medium (2-6 weeks) and long term (more than 6 weeks) visitors:

    • Dan Scolnic, Duke
      Host: Samaya Nissanke, Daniel Baumann, Alessandra Silvestri. From 16-11-19 till 29-11-19
    • Gilles Louppes & Antoine Wehenkel, University Liege
      Host: Christoph Weniger. From 18-11-19 till 22-11-19
    • Neal Dalal, Perimeter Institute
      Host: Samaya Nissanke and Alessandra Silvestri. From 08-11-19 till 20-11-19
    • Mark Görbig, Universite Paris Sud
      Host: Lars Fritz/Cristiane de Morais Smith. From 27-10-19 till 08-11-19
    • Gordon Baym, USA, Urbana-Champaign
      Host: Samaya Nissanke andTanja Hinderer. From 26-10-19 till 01-11-19
    • Eduardo Marino, Rio de Janeiro
      Host: Cristiane Morais Smith. From 13-09-19 till 30-09-19
    • Kirill Shtengel, University of California, Riverside
      Host: Larz Fritz. From 17-07-19 till 05-08-19
    • Anthony Piro, Carnegie Observatories
      Host: Samaya Nissanke, Tanja Hinderer. From 16-06-19 till 01-07-19
    • Gary Shiu, Madison, USA
      Host: Jan Pieter van der Schaar. From 14-06-19 till 07-07-19
    • Anatoly Polkovnikov, Boston University
      Host: Vladimir Gritsev. From 01-04-19 till 10-07-19
    • José Ignacio Latorre, University of Barcelona
      Host: Kareljan Schoutens. From 01-03-19 till 31-05-19
    • James Bonifacio, Case Western Reserve University
      Host: Daniel Baumann. From 10-03-19 till 24-03-19
    • Austin Joyce, Columbia University
      Host: Daniel Baumann. From 10-03-19 till 24-03-19
    • Johanna Erdmenger, University of Wuerzburg
      Host: Jan de Boer. From 02-09-19 till 13-09-19
    • Inanc Adagideli, Sabanci University, Istanbul
      Host: Carlo Beenakker. from 15-01-19 till 15-07-19     
    • Isaac Perez Castillo, UNAM Mexico
      Host: Jean-Sébastien Caux. From 07-01-19 till 25-01-19

    Visiting PhD Students

    • Abhinava Danish, IIT Hyderabad
      Host: Eric Laenen. From 01-11-19 till 20-12-19
    • Sourav Pal, IIT Hyderabad
      Host: Eric Laenen. From 01-11-19 till 20-12-19
    • Alex Cole, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
      Host: Jan Pieter van der Schaar. From 04-11-19 till 20-12-19
    • Fabrizio Renzi, Italy, Rome, La Sapienza
      Host: A. Silvestri and S. Nissanke. From 21-04-19 till 21-07-19
    • Iman Mahyaeh , Stockholm University 
      Host: Dirk Schuricht. From 01-04-19 till 31-05-19 
    • Laura Johnson, Case Western Reserve University
      Host: Daniel Baumann. From 10-03-19 till 24-03-19
  • 2018

    Medium (2-6 weeks) and long term (more than 6 weeks) visitors 

    • Emil Yuzbashyan (Rutgers, USA) 
      Host: Vadim Cheianov. From 17-11-2018 til 1-12-2018. 
    • Mauro Valli (INFN Rome) 
      Host: Christoph Weniger. From 23-4-208 till 4-5-2018. 
    • Maulik Parikh (Phoenix, Arizona) 
      Host: JP van der Schaar. From 1-4-2018 till 30-6-2018.
    • Adrian del Maestro (University of Vermont, Burlington (USA)) 
      Host: Lars Frits. From 1-05-2018 till 11-05-2018.
    • Chris Quigg (Fermilab) 
      Host: Eric Laenen. From 1-4-2018 till 6-5-2018.
    • Cesar Agon (Stony Brook University, USA) 
      Host: Jan de Boer. From 1-04-2018 till 30-04-2018.
    • Alexander Becker, University of Boston, USA 
      Host: Diego Garscharelli. From 15-01-2018 till 31-03-2018. 
    • Sadra Jazayeri (Iran, Teheran) 
      Host: Enrico Pajer. From 1-11-2017 till 31-03-2018.
    • Benjamin Wallish (Cambridge University, UK) 
      Host: Daniel Baumann. From 1-10-2017 till 31-03-2018. 
    • Isaac Perez Castillo (Mexico, Mexico City) 
      Host: JS Caux. From 3-01-18 till 03-02-2018.
    • Fabio Scardigli (Politecnico of Milano, Italy) 
      Host: Jan Zaanen. From 01-10-17 till 31-01-18.

    Visiting PhD Students 

    • Rodrigo Arouca de Albuquerque (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
      Host: Cristiane de Morais Smith. From 30-9-2018 til 15-12-2018. PhD program
    • Nicolas Kovensky (La Plata, Argentina)
      Host: Diego Hofman. From 26-2-2018 till 8-6-2018, 8-6-208 till 30-6-2018 and from 8-10-2018 till 12-10-2018.
  • 2017

    Medium (2-6 weeks) and long term (more than 6 weeks) visitors

    • Fabio Scardigli (Politecnico of Milano, Italy) 
      Host: Jan Zaanen (Leiden), from 01-10-17 till 31-01-18
    • Tim Tait (UC Irvine)  
      Host: Gianfranco Bertone (GRAPPA Amsterdam), from 01-09-17 till 20-12-17
    • Pedro Ribeiro (Portugal, Lisbon) 
      Host: Jean-Sébastien Caux (Amsterdam), from 01-09-17 till 30-11-17
    • Boris Krippa (Southampton Solent University, UK)
      Host: Henk Stoof (Utrecht), from 24-07-17 till 04-09-17
    • Andrew K Mitchell (University College Dublin, Ireland)
      Host: Lars Fritz (Utrecht) from 03-07-17 till 12-07-17
    • Andrei Linde (Stanford University)
      Host: Carlo Beenakker, spring 2017
    • Hong Liu (MIT)
      Host: Umut Gursoy (Utrecht), from 15-06-17 till 15-07-17  
    • Adam R. Solomon (UPenn, Philadelphia, USA)
      Host: Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden), from 05-06-17 till 10-07-17
    • Tim Linden, Ohio State University
      Host: Christoph Weniger (GRAPPA Amsterdam), from 11-06-17 till 18-06-17  
    • Eduardo C. Marino (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)  
      Host: Cristiane Morais Smith (Utrecht), from 04-05-17 till 16-06-17
    • Anatoli Polkovnikov (USA, Boston University) 
      Host: Vladimir Gritsev (Amsterdam), from 21-05-17 till 30-05-17  
    • Eugene Demler (Harvard University)
      Host: Vladimir Gritsev (Amsterdam) from 15-05-17 till 22-05-17  
    • Yaroslav Tserkovnyak (University of California, Los Angeles)
      Host: Rembert Duine (Utrecht), from  17-04-17 till 16-06-17  
    • Bahareh Shakiba (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, Iran)
      Host: Helmut Schiessel, 15-03-17 till 15-06-17
    • Giovanni Cabass (La Sapienza U. Rome) 
      Host: Enrico Pajer (Utrecht), from 20-02-17 till 24-03-17
    • Brandon DiNunno (University of Texas at Austin)
      Host: Umut Gursoy (Utrecht), from 15-01-17 till 15-04-17  
    • Oleksandr Sobol (Ukraine, Kyiv)
      Host: Alexey Boyarsky (Leiden), from 09-01-17 till 07-04-17  
    • Leo Radzihovsky (University of Colorado Boulder)
      Host: Vincenzo Vitelli (Leiden), from  15-01-17 till 15-02-17
    • Magnus Tournoy (Leuven, Belgium)
      Host: Jan Pieter van der Schaar, from 16-10-2017 till 15-12-2017
    • John Beacom (Columbus, Ohio (USA))  
      Host: Gianfranco Bertone. From 14-10-2017 till 14-11-2017
    • Oleg Lychkovskiy (Skoltech, Moscow, Russia) 
      Host:  J.-S. Caux, V. Cheianov and O. Gamayun. From 30-10-2017 till 14-11-2017
    • Frederic Piechon (Paris Orsay, France)
      Host: Lars Frits. From 20-11-2017 till 25-11-2017
    • Marcos César Amor Pérez Leiva (Brazil, Porto Alegre)
      Host: Cristiane Morais Smith. From 17-11-17 till 15-12-2017
    • Benjamin Wallish (Cambridge University, UK)
      Host: Daniel Baumann. From 1-10-2017 till 31-03-2018
    • Sadra Jazayeri (Iran, Teheran)
      Host: Enrico Pajer. From 1-11-2017 till 31-03-2018

    Visiting PhD students

    • Carlo Nicolini (Rovereto, Italy)
      Host: Diego Garlaschelli (Leiden), from 10-04-17 till 10-07-17
    • Jaewon Kim (USA, Princeton)
      Host: Jean-Sébastien Caux (Amsterdam), from 25-05-17 till 28-07-17 
    • Gizem Sengor (Syracuse University)
      Host: Jan Pieter van der Schaar (Amsterdam), from 04-09-17 till 22-12-17
  • 2016

    Medium (2-6 weeks) and long term (more than 6 weeks) visitors

    • Sadra Jazayeri, IPM Tehran
      Host: Enrico Pajer (Utrecht), from 18-09-16 till 16-10-16
    • Michael Varga (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University (Ohio, USA))
      Host: Luca Giomi (Leiden), from 19-06-16 till 31-10-16 
    • Pablo Bueno (KU Leuven)
      Host: Jan de Boer,  from 03-10-16 till 09-12-16
    • Maulik Parikh (University of Arizona)
      Host: Jan Pieter van der Schaar, from 24-06-16 till 14-07-16
    • Alexander Yakimenko (Bogoliubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev)
      Host: Vadim Cheianov (Leiden), from 11-07-16 till 15-08-16
    • Alexander Abanov (Simons Center, Stoney Brook)
      Hosted by Vadim Cheianov, Vincenzo Vitelli (both Leiden) and Vladimir Gritsev (Amsterdam), from 28-06-16 till 12-07-2016  
    • John Toner (University of Oregon)  
      Host: Vincenzo Vitelli (Leiden), from 01-10-16 till 01-11-16
    • Isaac Perez Castillo (Institute of Physics, UNAM)
      Host: Jean-Sébastien Caux (Amsterdam), from 30-10-16 till 21-11-16
    • Andrei Linde (Stanford University)
      Host: Carlo Beenakker, Ana Acchucaro (Leiden), june, july 2016
    • Giovanni Cabass (La Sapienza)  
      Host: Enrico Pajer (Utrecht), from 02-05-16 till 02-06-16
    • Juan Jottar (ETH Zurich)
      Hosted by Diego Hofman/Jan de Boer/ Alejandra Castro (Amsterdam), from 03-07-16 till 31-07-16
    • Lorenzo Campos Venuti (USC Department of Physics and Astronomy)
      Vladimir Gritsev (Amsterdam), from 01-06-16 till 25-06-16
    • Paolo Zanardi (USC Department of Physics and Astronomy)
      Host: Vladimir Gritsev (Amsterdam), from 25-05-16 till 25-06-16
    • Hiroyasu Koizumi (Japan Tsukuba)
      Host: Jan Zaanen (Leiden), from 21-04-16 till 21-10-16
    • Daan Meerburg (University of Toronto)  
      Host: Jan Pieter van der Schaar (Amsterdam), from 15-03-16 till 20-06-16

    PhD program 

    • Elena Garuccio (Siena, Italy)
      Host: Diego Garlaschelli (Leiden)
    • Geoffroy Bergeron (Canada, Montreal)
      Host: Jean-Sébastien Caux  (Amsterdam) 
    • Paul Gersberg (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI))
      Host: Erik Verlinde (Amsterdam)
    • Enrico Randellini (University of Florence)
      Host: Kareljan Schoutens 
    • Marco Raveri (Trieste, Italy)
      Host: Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden)
  • 2015

    Medium (2-6 weeks) and long term (more than 6 weeks) visitors

    • Alexei Starobinsky, Landau Institute, Moscow, RAS
      Host: Tomislav Prokopec, UU
    • Daniel Baumann, DAMPT, Cambridge University
      Regular visitor Amsterdam String theory group
    • Zeb Rocklin, University of Michigan
      Host:  Vincenzo Vitelli (Leiden Univ) 01-10-2015 till 15-11-2015
    • Natalie Paquette, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
      Host: Miranda Cheng (Amsterdam) from 15-09-2015 till 15-12-2015
    • Giovanni Cabass, Sapienza Università di Roma
      Host: Enrico Pajer (Utrecht)
    • John Toner, University of Oregon
      Host: Vincenzo Vitelli (LeidenUniv) from  01-09-2015 till 30-09-2015
    • Ogan Ozsoy, Syracuse, NY, USA
      Host: Jan Pieter van der Schaar (Amsterdam), from 01-09-2015 till 15-11-2015  
    • David Ramirez (Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA)
      Host: Diego Hofman (Amsterdam), from 15-09-2015 to 15-10-2015
    • John Toner, University of Oregon
      Host: Vincenzo Vitelli (Leiden Univ), from 28-08-2015 till 28-09-2015
    • Frank Tackmann, Hamburg, Germany
      Host: Wouter Waalewijn, Nikhef Amsterdam, from 27-07-2015 till  07-08-2015
    • Iain Stewart (MIT)
      Host: Wouter Waalewijn (Nikhef Amsterdam)  Summer 2015 
    • Valentina Salvatelli, CPT Marseille, France
      Host: Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden Univ), from 22-06-2015 till 09-07-2015
    • Diptarka Das, University of Kentucky
      Host: Nabil Iqbal, Amsterdam, Summer 2015
    • Armen E Allahverdyan, Yerevan, Armenia 
      Host : Theo Nieuwenhuizen (Amsterdam), from 18-05-2015 till 17-06-2015 
    • Igor Aleiner, Columbia University, NY
      Host: Vadim Cheianov (Leiden Univ),  from 17-05-2015 till 31-05-2015
    • Mikhail Zvonarev (Lab of Theoretical Physics and Statistical Models (LPTMS), CNRS, France)
      Host: Vadim Cheyanov (Leiden) and Vladimir Gritsev (UvA), from 06-04-2015 till 04-05-2015
    • Alexander Chudnovskiy
      Host: Vadim Cheianov (Leiden Univ), from 22-02-2015 till 04-03-2015

    Visiting PhD students

    • Elena Garuccio (Siena, Italy)
      Host: Diego Garlaschelli (Leiden Univ), from 16-10-2015 till 15-04-2016.
  • 2014

    Medium (2-6 weeks) and long term (more than 6 weeks) visitors

    • Daniel Baumann (U Cambridge)
      Host: UvA String Theory group
    • Alexei Starobinsky (Landau Institute, Moskow)
      Host: Tomislav Prokopec

    Visiting PhD students

    • Dalit Engelhardt (UCLA)
      Host: Ben Freivogel)
    • Gàbor Sárosi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
      Host: Alejandra Castro