Alexander Wietek was a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) from August 2018 until April 2022. He joined the institute after completing his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics at the University of Innsbruck, during which time he also coordinated the WissensDurst science outreach festival in Innsbruck. His research at the CCQ focused on the physics of strongly correlated electrons and numerical tensor network algorithms. At present, he is a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany, after having received a starting grant in the context of the Emmy-Noether program of the German Research Foundation (DFG).