David Wellnitz is broadly interested in the interface of atomic and molecular physics with quantum technologies, and the numerical simulation of quantum many-body systems. Following his undergraduate and masters studies at Heidelberg University in Germany, he moved to the University of Strasbourg in France to pursue a PhD in physics in the group of Johannes Schachenmayer and Guido Pupillo in 2018. In his PhD, he developed numerical methods to study quantum many-body dynamics and applied them to investigate how the interaction of molecules with light confined in optical cavities modify their chemical reactions. He joined the Rey group in March 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher. Here, he studies quantum many-body dynamics of molecules at temperatures near absolute zero for quantum simulation.
Outside of physics, he enjoys a good game of chess and likes to go hiking.
and 
