Lea Richtmann

Lea (pronouns she/her/hers) studied physics, political science, and philosophy in Mannheim, Lille (France), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Hannover, Rome (Italy), and West Lafayette, IN (USA). She wrote her Bachelor’s and Master’s Thesis in physics at CERN in Geneva (Switzerland). Her work was in accelerator physics, studying beam dynamics and failure cases at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) using measurement data and simulations.

Lea joined the QuantumControl group as a PhD student in January 2022.

She investigates how machine learning can be helpful for physical problems. In collaboration with Tobias Osborne’s group from the Institute for Theoretical Physics, she is working on implementing reinforcement learning to (quantum) optical experiments and to tasks related with quantum computing.

You can find a short article from the public outreach magazine Wissen hoch N which includes a section on one of Lea’s projects here.

Lea is also involved in other outreach activities such as Science Slams or collaborating with artists for the immersive exhibition “Warum ist die Raumzeit krumm?”. She was also invited to “Der radio3 Atelier Talk – Die Sendung mit der Kunst und der Wissenschaft”.

Besides physics, Lea is equally fascinated by dance, music, bikes, and social justice work. She is interested in striving for a work atmosphere in science that is welcoming to everybody and doesn’t tell minorities to adapt to the current structures.