• PhD, SISSA, Trieste, Italy (2013) 
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Universities of Innsbruck (Austria) and Dresden (Germany) (2013-2015)
• Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow, University of Cologne, Germany (2015-2017)
• JILA and CTQM Research Associate, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (2017-2018)
• Marie Curie Global Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2018-2019)

• Assistant Professor, Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Mainz, Germany (2019-2025)

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

• Equilibrium and non-equilibrium field theory for condensed matter
• Non-equilibrium phase transitions (pre-thermalization, glasses, kinetically constrained systems)
• Theory of driven-open quantum systems (dissipation and noise engineering)
• Hybrid quantum circuits
• Strongly correlated light-matter interfaces
• Dissipative quantum impurities

Our research team investigates whether quantum phenomena can endure at long times and large distances in scalable many-body systems—whether isolated or subject to driven–dissipative dynamics. Specifically, we focus on identifying those emergent phases of matter that demand a truly quantum description, beyond any classical surrogate or effective description. We explore how modern quantum simulators and light-matter interfaces can be steered to create and probe these exotic states. Our work is concept- rather than method-centric, and it spans across theoretical condensed matter physics, quantum many body optics, quantum information, and field theory. Check our group webpage for an expanded synopsis: sites.google.com/view/nequantumuniv

• Pauli Center Visiting Fellowship awarded by the ETH-Zurich (2023)
• QuantEmX Fellowship awarded by ICAM of the University of California (2022)
• Henriette-Herz Prize awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2021)
• Marie Curie Global Fellowship awarded by the EU program Horizon 2020 (2017)
• ’Independence Prize’ awarded by the scientific consortium CRC-1238 of the Universities of Cologne, Bonn and Jülich (2016)
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2015)
• E. Gugino prize for best undergraduate dissertation (2009)

• Magnon Nesting in Driven Two-Dimensional Quantum Magnets, H. Hosseinabadi, Y. Tserkownyak, E. Demler, J. Marino, arXiv2505.10531
• Dissipative realization or Kondo models, M. Stefanini, Y. Qu, T. Esslinger, S. Gopalakrishnan, E. Demier, J. Marino, Commun. Phys. B, 212 (2025)
• Far from equilibrium field theory for strongly coupled light and matter: dynamics of frustrated multi-mode cavity QED, H. Hosseinabadi, D. Chang, J. Marino, Phys. Rev. Research 6, 043314 (2024)
• A Rydberg platform for non-ergodic chiral quantum dynamics, R. J. Valencia-Tortora, N. Pancotti, M. Fleischhauer, H. Bernien, J. Marino, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 223201 (2024)
• Scrambling Transition in a Radiative Random Unitary Circuit, Z. Weinstein, S. Kelly, J. Marino, E. Altman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220404 (2023)
• Universality class of Ising critical states with long-range losses, J. Marino, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050603 (2022)
• Universal pre-thermal dynamics and self-similar relaxation in the two-dimensional Heisenberg model, J. Rodriguez-Nieva, A. Pifeiro Orioli, J. Marino, PNAS 119 (28) (2022)
• Correlation engineering via non-local dissipation, K. Seetharam, A. Lerose, R. Fazio, J. Marino, Phys. Rev. Research 4, 013089 (2022)
• Observation of a Transition between dynamical phases in a quantum degenerate Fermi gas, S. Smale, P. He, B. Oben, K. Jackson, H. Sharum, S. Trotzky, J. Marino, A. M. Rey, J. H. Thywissen, Science Advances, vol. 5, n. 8 (2019)
• Driven Markovian Quantum criticality, J. Marino, S. Diehl, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070407 (2016)

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