Max Planck

Max Planck is a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS), Germany, since June 2022. Prior to this, he held postdoctoral positions at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (2019–2022), Boston University (2018–2019), and Ghent University/University of Amsterdam (2014–2018).

His research focuses on quantum many-body dynamics, dual-unitary systems, entanglement, integrability, and operator spreading. He has published extensively on exactly solvable quantum circuits, spatiotemporal information scrambling, and ergodicity-breaking phenomena, with a recent emphasis on Krylov complexity, temporal entanglement barriers, and biunitary constructions in 2024–2025.

His work explores the intersection of quantum chaos, thermalization, and the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, often leveraging space-time duality and geometric methods. He supervises a research group including Hansveer Singh, Gabriel Alves, and others. His email is claeys@pks.mpg.de.