Thomas Mieling

Postdoctoral researcher at the Research Center Jülich

Thomas Mieling is a theoretical physicist working at the Research Center Jülich. His current research focus is on optics in curved space-times and gravitational effects in quantum interferometry.

As a member of the Peter Grünberg Institute PGI-12, Thomas Mieling studies general relativistic effects in quantum communication. He is also involved in the ERC-funded GRAVITES project on gravitational interferometry with entangled states in optical fibers. His dissertation Gupta–Bleuler quantization of the electromagnetic field in curved space-times with applications to gravitational photon interferometry is available online.

Articles

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Mar. 2026 (with Haocun Yu, Dorothea Macri, Thomas Morling, Eleonora Polini, Peter Barrow, Begüm Kabagöz, Xinghui Yin, Piotr T. Chruściel, Christopher Hilweg, Eric Oelker, Nergis Mavalvala and Philip Walther).
50-km fiber interferometer for testing gravitational signatures in quantum interference.
Physical Review Letters 136 110803.

Feb. 2026.
Internal dynamics and guided motion in general relativistic quantum interferometry.
Preprint.

Jan. 2026 (with Marius Oancea and Giandomenico Palumbo).
Quantum geometric tensors from sub-bundle geometry.
Quantum 10 1965.

Talks

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2026-09-01

Lisbon, Portugal

Geometric methods for quantum interferometry in gravitational fields
Avenues of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime 2026

2025-09-10

Milan, Italy

Gupta–Bleuler Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field in Curved Space-Times with Applications to Gravitational Photon Interferometry
XXVI SIGRAV Conference at the University of Milano-Bicocca

2025-01-06

Bremen, Germany

Fiber Optics in Curved Space-Times
Drop Tower Seminar

Distinctions

Recipient of the 2025 Giulio Rampa PhD Thesis Prize
Recipient of the 2024 Hans Thirring-Prize
Recipient of the 2024 Award of Excellence from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF)
Recipient of a DOC fellowship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Recipient of a VDSP fellowship by the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics
Recipient of the 2019 Alfred Wehrl Award
Member of the Dean’s List at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics
Recipient of excellence scholarships from the University of Vienna for the academic years 2014/15, 2015/16, and 2016/17 (BSc in Physics) as well as 2017/18 and 2018/19 (MSc in Physics)