About Philipp Hoellmer

From January 2024-September 2026, Philipp was an independent postdoctoral fellow at the Simons Center for Computational Physical Chemistry at New York University. Working with the Hocky lab, he studied ionic colloidal crystals with molecular-dynamics simulations and enhanced-sampling techniques. Before his postdoctoral fellowship, he obtained his PhD in physics at the University of Bonn, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Monien. In a close collaboration with Prof. Krauth from the École normale supérieure de Paris, he developed a non-reversible and rejection-free Markov-chain Monte Carlo method for classical molecular simulations that is both exact and efficient.