Foundations of Quantum, Atoms, and Light

Presentations by Young Scientists

Wednesday, 1 July 2026
17:00 - 18:30 CEST

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Stadttheater

When Atoms Behave Like Light
Kemal Önen
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Quantum Physics Is Super Random
Victoria Sánchez Muñoz
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Shaping Light With Precision Nanochemistry
Kushagra Gahlot
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Tracing the Extraterrestrial Origin of Matter by Counting Atoms
Chiara Llinas
University of Vienna, Austria

Quantum Simulation of Chemical Dynamics Beyond Born-Oppenheimer
Christophe Valahu
University of Sydney, Australia

Molecular Gymnastics –Tunnelling of Molecules Aligned by Strong Electric Fields
J. Amira Geuther
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Splitting Photons: Generating Entangled Quantum Light in Nanostructured Materials
Maximilian A. Weissflog
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Magnets That Shouldn’t Work – but Do: Altermagnets and Anti-Altermagnets
Anna Birk Hellenes
Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Agentic AI for Closing the Loop Between Theory and Experiment in Scientific Discovery
Suvo Banik
Argonne National Laboratory, United States of America

Moderator: Rainer Blatt
University of Innsbruck, Austria