0000-0001-7799-5614 About
Education:
1970 - 1978 Humanistisches Gymnasium, Vienna
1978 - 1983 Study: physics and astronomy (TU-Wien, Univ. Wien)
1984 - 1987 PhD. Experimental physics, TU-Wien
1997 Habilitation: experimental physics (Univ. Innsbruck)
Professional Experience:
1983 - 1984 Researcher: EHS Experiment CERN
1985 - 1990 Assistent, Institut für Kernphysik, TU-Wien
1990 - 1991 Postdoc, Harvard University, Cambridge MA USA.
1992 - 1995 Postdoc+Visiting Scientist, MIT, Cambridge MA USA.
1993 - 1997 Assistent, Institut f. Experimentalphysik, Univ. Innsbruck
1997 - 2000 Ao Prof (with tenure) Universität Innsbruck
2000 - 2006 Chair of Experimental Physics, Universität Heidelberg
2003 - 2006 Guestprofessor Peking University, Beijing, China
2007 – now Chair of Experimental Physics, TU-Wien
2010 - 2020 Guestprofessor National Institut of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
Research Fellowships:
1981 CERN summer research student fellowship
1990-1992 Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship (FWF)
1994-1997 APART Fellowship, Austrian Academy of Science
Prizes:
1978 2nd prize at the Philips European Contest for Young Scientists and Inventors
1988 Viktor Hess prize (Austrian Physical Society)
1992 Excellence in Research and Development award: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1996 European Optics Prize, European Optical Society (with A. Zeilinger und colleagues)
2006 Wittgenstein Prize
2012 Wissenschaftspreis der Stadt Wien
2013 ERC Advanced Grant
2022 ERC Advanced Grant
Memberships:
2010 Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2013 Full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2014 Fellow of the American Physical Society
2025 Fellow of AAAS
Institutional Responsibilities
2023 – now Bord of Directors: Quantum Science Austria (QuantA)
2022 Founding Memb: Quantum Science Austria (QuantA)
2020 – now Member at Aspen Center for Physics
2016 – now Scientific Advisory Board: Quantum
2015 – now Scientific Advisory Board: SciPost Physics
2013 – now Member of numerous committees at the Austrian Academy of Science, AT
2010 Founding Memb: Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology VCQ
2009 – 2013 Program Advisory Board, EMMI (Extreme Matter Institute) / GSI/ GER
2009 – 2012 Institute Director, Atominstitut, TU-Wien, Vienna AT
1995 – now Member and Chairmen of numerous committees for evaluating and hiring
faculty at senior (tenured) and junior (tenure track) level world wide.
Research Interests (current):
+ Matter wave interferometry: probe many-body quantum systems
+ AtomChips: integrated circuits for experiments with matter waves.
+ Ultra-cold quantum gases: low dimensional many-body quantum sys-tems
+ Quantum memory: atomic ensembles to build a quantum repeater
+ Hybrid quantum systems: Spin ensembles coupled to superconducting circuits
+ Quantum systems out of equilibrium: Emergence of statistical mechanics from the
microscopic unitary quantum evolution in the relaxation of isolated MBQuS,
nonequilibrium quantum fields
+ Quantum simulation: Emergent quantum simulators,
Quantum simulation of Quantum Field Thories.
Major Collaborations outside QuantA (current)
+ Non-equilibrium quantum fields: J. Berges, T. Gasenzer (Universität Heidelberg)
+ Quantum many-body physics: E. Demler (Harvard/ETH-Zürich)
+ Quantum Measurement, Quantum Simulation: J. Eisert FU Berlin
+ Quantum Information, Quantum Communication:
Kae Nemoto (NII Tokyo and OIST, Okinawa), Bill Munro (OIST, Okinawa, Japan)
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Publications (399)
- Characterising transport in a quantum gas by measuring Drude weights Save
- Fast coherent splitting of Bose-Einstein condensates Save
- Experimentally probing Landauer’s principle in the quantum many-body regime Save
- Measurement of total phase fluctuation in cold-atomic quantum simulators Save
- Systematic analysis of relative phase extraction in one-dimensional Bose gases interferometry Save
- Quantum-Limited Generalized Measurement for Tunnel-Coupled Condensates Save
- Hamiltonian learning in quantum field theories Save
- Matter-wave interferometers with trapped strongly interacting Feshbach molecules Save
- Identifying diffusive length scales in one-dimensional Bose gases Save
- Whitham approach to Generalized Hydrodynamics Save
- Squeezing Oscillations in a Multimode Bosonic Josephson Junction Save
- Hydrogen crystals reduce dissipation in superconducting resonators Save
- Triggered Superradiance and Spin Inversion Storage in a Hybrid Quantum System Save
- Optimizing Optical Potentials With Physics-Inspired Learning Algorithms Save
- Emergent Pauli Blocking in a Weakly Interacting Bose Gas Save
- Floquet Engineering a Bosonic Josephson Junction Save
- Observation of Light-Induced Dipole-Dipole Forces in Ultracold Atomic Gases Save
- Nonlinear quantum gates for a Bose-Einstein condensate Save
- Thermometry of one-dimensional Bose gases with neural networks Save
- Quantum Field Thermal Machines Save