In 2017 Aidelsburger joined the faculty at
LMU Munich, where she was promoted to Professor in 2019. She holds a joint position at the
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. Here she successfully applied for a
European Research Council Starting Grant on synthetic quantum matter. Her research considers lattice gauge theories and how they couple to fermionic matter. She performs quantum simulations of many-body physics. These simulations can achieve with a high degree of control and can achieve complex physical behaviour, including
many-body localization and
Hilbert space fragmentation. They can be engineered to investigate out-of-equilibrium phases and topological lattice models, including the Haldane model and
Hofstadter's butterfly. Her experiments typically contain a
laser cooling stage, where atoms are cooled to very low temperatures (generating either
Bose–Einstein condensates or
degenerate Fermi gases), which she traps into optical potentials that are generated by interfering laser beams. The
Swiss National Science Foundation nominated Aidelsburger to AcademiaNet in 2021. That year, she was awarded both the Alfried-Krupp-Förderpreis, named after
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, and
Klung Wilhelmy Science Award in 2021. == Awards and recognitions ==