Personal profile

Research interests

  • Macromolecular quantum optics
  • Matter-wave interferometry
  • Testing the linearity of quantum physics
  • Biomolecular beam methods
  • Quantum enhanced metrology

 

 

Awards

2013

Prize for Natural and Technical Sciences,  City of Vienna   

2012

ERC Advanced Grant PROBIOTIQUS, European Research Council

2008

Wittgenstein Prize, Ministry for Science and Research, BMWF &  FWF

2006

Science Communication Award (3rd), Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

2001

START Prize, Ministry of Education, Science & Culture & (FWF)

2000

Fritz-Kohlrausch Prize, Austrian Physical Society (ÖPG)

2000

Erich-Schmid-Prize, Austrian Acad. of Sciences (ÖAW)

Administrative duties

2013-2016 Vice Speaker:
Research Platform Quantum Physics and Nanoscale Biological Systems, QuNaBioS

2013-2016: Vice Speaker:
Doctoral Program Complex Quantum Systems, CoQuS

10/2012 - 9/2014 Dean of the Faculty of Physics

1/2007 - 9/2012 Group Speaker:
Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information

Since 2010 Founding Member:
Vienna Center for Quantum Science and  Technology, VCQ

2007-2013 Speaker:
Doctoral Program Complex Quantum Systems, CoQuS
 
 

Memberships

Since 2014 : Corresponding Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

20010-2013: Member Young Curia, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

 

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