I am Philipp Strasberg, a theoretical physicist interested in knowing whether the Universe works like a giant clockwork: a purely mechanistic device able to produce complex phenomena like life from a simple set of deterministic rules (whether they are classical, quantum or post-quantum).

During most of my career I was interested in how entropy, thermodynamics, Maxwell’s demon and the arrow of time is connected to an underlying mechanical description. Currently, however, I focus more on understanding the emergence of classicality and Born’s rule in a Universe that is fundamentally quantum.

I use this blog to express my opinion on a variety of topics, but currently I don’t have the time, energy and motivation to post much stuff here. Sometimes I also express my thoughts on LinkedIn, but overall I’m bored of social media (so better send me an email if you wanna get in contact with me).

I’m in favor of Universal Basic Income.

I’m shocked by the level of current militarization and warmongering in Europe.

Here are some pictures of me that I like:

Short CV. Born 1988 in (formally at the time) East Germany, physics studies until 2012 and PhD in 2015 at the Technical University of Berlin (supervisor Tobias Brandes), first postdoc in Luxembourg in the group of Massimiliano Esposito, from 2018 to 2024 part of the quantum information group at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona supported by independent postdoctoral research fellowships. Since September 2024 Ramon y Cajal fellow at the Cantabrian Institute of Physics (IFCA).

Academic genealogy. Philipp Strasberg (2015) — Tobias Brandes (1994) — Bernhard Kramer (1967) — Otfried Madelung (1950) — Werner Heisenberg (1923) — Arnold Sommerfeld (1891) — Carl Lindemann (1873) — Christian Felix Klein (1868) — Julius Pluecker (1823) — Christian Ludwig Gerling (1812) — Carl Friedrich Gauss (1799).