Anton Zeilinger, Curriculum Vitae #

Curriculum vitae

Born on May 20th, 1945 in Ried/Innkreis, Austria

Present addresses: Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna
Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria

Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Boltzmanngasse 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria

EDUCATION

• 1979 Habilitation, Technical University Vienna
• 1971 Ph.D., University of Vienna, thesis on "Neutron Depolarization in Dysprosium Single Crystals" under Prof. H. Rauch
• 1963-1971 Study of Physics and Mathematics, University Vienna
• 1963 Matura (School Leaving Examination), Bundesgymnasium Wien 13, Fichtnergasse 15, Vienna

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

• 2004-present Scientific Director, IQOQI. Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
• 1999-present Full Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna
• 1990-1999 Full Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck
• 1988-1989 Full Professor of Physics (Lehrstuhlvertretung), Technical University of Munich
• 1983-1990 Associate Professor, Technical University of Vienna
• 1981-1983 Associate Professor of Physics, M.I.T. (Visiting)
• 1979-1983 Assistant Professor, Atominstitut Vienna
• 1977-1978 Research Associate (Fulbright Fellow) at M.I.T. in the Neutron Diffraction Laboratory under Prof. C.G. Shull (Nobel Laureate 1994), USA

VISITING RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

• 2010 Visiting Research Fellow, Part-Time, Merton College, Oxford
• 2001-2004 Senior Humboldt Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
• 1998 Visiting Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford University, UK
• 1995 Chaire Internationale, Collège de France, Paris, France
• 1986-1989 Adjunct Full Professor, part-time, Hampshire College, Amherst, USA
• 1983-1990 Regular summer research appointments at M.I.T., USA
• 1974-1989 Guest Researcher (part-time), Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France

DISTINGUISHED LECTURES

• 2011 Vice Chancellors Lecture, University of Cape Town
• 2011 Mark W. Zemansky Lecture, City College of New York
• 2011 Festvortrag, 75th Annual Meeting, German Physical Society, Dresden
• 2011 Van Fleck Lecture, University of Minnesota
• 2011 Festkolloquium für Peter Becker, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Braunschweig
• 2010 Frontiers in Physics Lecture, City College, City University, New York
• 2010 Ockham Lecture, Merton College, Oxford University
• 2010 Dvorak Memorial Lecture, University of Prague
• 2010 Celsius Lecture, Uppsala University
• 2009 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Lectures, University of Hamburg
• 2009 Festvortrag, 150th birthday of Max Planck, Max Planck Society, German Physical Society, Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
• 2009 Inaugural Kavli Colloquium at Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• 2009 PITP Lecture on Quantum Phenomena, Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics, Vancouver, Canada
• 2008 Newton Prize Lecture, Institute of Physics, London
• 2008 Asher Perez Memorial Lecture, Technion, Haifa, Israel
• 2007 Wolfgang-Paul Lecture, Bonn University, Germany
• 2006 Barut Memorial Lect., Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
• 2006 Rosenthal Lecture, Yale University, USA
• 2006 Johannes Gutenberg Lecture, Mainz University, Germany
• 2004 Colloquium Ehrenfestii, Leiden University, Netherlands
• 2003 Angstrom Lecture, Uppsala University, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2003 Amos de-Shalit Memorial Lecture, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
• 2003 Solly Cohen and Shimon Offer Memorial Lecture, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• 2003 Schrödinger Lecture, Imperial College, London, UK
• 2003 Niels Bohr Lecture, Copenhagen University, Denmark
• 2002 Chemerda Lecture, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• 1999 Schrödinger Lecture, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
• 1997 H.L. Welsh Lecture in Physics, University of Toronto, Canada
• 1996 Colloquium Ehrenfestii, Leiden University, Netherlands
• 1984 Sir Thomas Lyle Lecture, University of Melbourne, Australia

DISTINGUISHED MEMBERSHIPS

• 2011 Full Member, Academia Europaea
• 2009 Foreign Member, Académie des Sciences, Institut de France
• 2006 Foreign Member, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• 2005 Honorary Member, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• 2005 Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• 2002 Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
• 2000 Member, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea
• 1999 Fellow, American Physical Society
• 1998 Full Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 1994 Corresponding Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences

HONORARY PROFESSORSHIPS AND DOCTORATES

• 2006 Honorary Doctorate, Gdansk University, Poland
• 2005 Honorary Doctorate, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
• 1996 Honorary Professor, University of Science and Technology of China

INTERNATIONAL PRIZES AND AWARDS

• 2010 Wolf-Prize in Physics, Wolf Foundation, Israel
• 2009 Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2008 ERC Advanced Grant, European Research Council
• 2008 Quantum Communication Award, Tamagawa University, Japan
• 2008 Isaac Newton Medal, Institute of Physics, UK
• 2007 Quantum Electronics Prize, European Physical Society
• 2005 King Faisal Prize, King Faisal Foundation, Saudi Arabia
• 2005 Descartes Prize, European Commission
• 2004 Lorenz-Oken-Medal, Society of German Researchers and Physicians, Germany
• 2004 Klopsteg Award, American Association of Physics Teachers, USA
• 2003 Sartorius Prize, Göttingen Academy of Sciences, Germany
• 2001 Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts, Germany
• 2000 Senior Humboldt Fellow Prize, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Germany
• 1997 European Optics Prize, European Optical Society
• 1996 European Lecturer, European Physical Society
• 1995 Prix Vinci d'Excellence, Fondation LVMH, Paris, France

AUSTRIAN PRIZES AND AWARDS

• 2006 Grand Gold Decoration, City of Vienna
• 2005 Wilhelm-Exner-Medal, Austrian Association for Enterprises
• 2002 Johannes Kepler-Prize, Science Prize of Upper Austria
• 2001 Decoration of Sciences and Arts (Austrian equivalent to the Order of Merit)
• 2001 Visionary of the Year in Science
• 2000 Science Prize, City of Vienna
• 1997 Kardinal Innitzer Würdigungspreis, Vienna
• 1996 Austrian Scientist of the Year
• 1980 Junior Prize of the Theodor Körner Foundation, Vienna
• 1979 Prize for Junior Scientists, Kardinal Innitzer Foundation, Vienna
• 1975 Prize of the City of Vienna for the Encouragement of Young Scientists

ADMINISTRATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

• 2009-present President, International Academy Traunkirchen, Austria
• 2008-present Member, Planning and Strategy Committee of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 2006-present Vice Chair, Board of Trustees, Institute of Science and Technology of Austria
• 2006-present Member, Executive Board, Institute of Science and Technology of Austria
• 2006-2009 Dean of the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna
• 2004-present Scientific Director, Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum. Information Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 2002-2003 Member, Founding Convent, University of Vienna, Austria
• 2002 Initiator of a new Postgraduate Research Institution which has been implemented as Institute of Science and Technology in Austria
• 1997-1998 President, Austrian Physical Society
• 1996-1998 Member, Quantum Electronics and Optics Division, European Physical Society
• 1994-2000 Member, Editorial Board, Physical Review A
• Since 1988 Member, Editorial Board, Foundations of Physics
• 2006 – 2008 Member, Editoral Board, New Journal of Physics

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Fundamental Phenomena in Quantum Mechanics (experiment and theory) and their Applications in Quantum Information Science and Technology
• Fundamental investigations in Quantum Physics, experiment and theory
• Tests of Quantum Mechanics
• Entanglement and Quantum Nonlocality
• Coherent Neutron and Atom Optics
• Matter Wave Interferometry
• Quantum Cryptography
• Quantum Communication
• Quantum Computation
• Quantum Teleportation
• Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox
• Decoherence

MAJOR RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS
Fundamental Physics and Theory

• Generalized Aharonov-Bohm Effects for Time-Dependent Potentials
• First Papers ever published on Quantum Cellular Automata
• nvention of First Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Experiment Based on an External Variable (Momentum) Instead of an Internal One (e.g. Spin)
• Discovery of Three-Particle Entanglement as an Extreme Demonstration of Quantum Non-Locality (GHZ)
• Discovery of Entanglement Swapping
• Identification of Information as Fundamental in Quantum Physics
• Mathematical Irreducibility and Quantum Randomness Neutron Interferometry and Neutron Optics
• Demonstration of Spinor Symmetry using a Neutron Interferometer
• Observation of Coherent Spinor Superposition with Neutrons
• Young’s Double-Slit Experiment with Neutrons
• Development of Novel Perfect-Crystal Neutron Interferometers
• Neutron Interferometry with Very Cold Neutrons
• Measurement of the Magnetic Neutrality of the Neutron
• Observation of the Anomalous Effective Mass of Neutrons
• Tests of the Linearity and the Unitarity of the Schrödinger Equation
• Observation of the Fizeau-Effect for Neutrons
• Observation of In-Crystal Gravitational Effects with Neutrons
• Observation of Generalized Aharonov-Bohm-Effects with Neutrons

Atom Optics

• Dynamical Diffraction of Atoms at Thick Light Crystals
• Diffraction of Atoms at a purely Imaginary Potential
• Anomalous Transmission of Atoms through Light Fields
• Coherent Side-Band Modulation of Atomic DeBroglie Waves
• Development of an Atom Interferometer with Gratings of Light
• Development of a Nanometer Mask made of Light for Atoms
• Development of a Moiré Accelerometer and Rotation Sensor
• Diffraction of Atoms at Complex Potentials
• Observation of a Violation of Friedel’s Law with Atoms
• Coherent Diffraction of Atoms at Light Crystals in the Channeling Limit
• Atom Holography

Molecule Optics

• Development of a Macromolecule Interferometer
• Quantum Interference of C-60 and C-70 Molecules
• Quantum Interference of Porphyrine, a biological molecule
• Decoherence by Collisions
• Decoherence by Photon Emission
• Detailed Investigation of the Quantum-Classical Transition

Mesoscopic Physics

• First Demonstration of the Self-Cooling of a Micromechanical Mirror by Radiation Pressure Fundamental Physics with Entangled Photons
• Development of a Novel High-Intensity Source for Polarization-Entangled Photon Pairs
• Observation of a Violation of Bell’s Inequality by more than 100 Standard Deviations
• Two-Photon Quantum Eraser Experiments
• Young’s Experiment with Single Photons with High Precision
• Measurement of Pendellösung for Single Photons and for Entangled Photon Pairs
• Experimental Demonstration of Interaction-Free Measurement
• Entangled Entanglement
• First Experiment of Two-Photon Antibunching at a Beam Splitter
• A Double-Slit Heisenberg Microscope Experiment with Photon Pairs
• First Experimental Quantum Teleportation
• Long-Distance Test of Bell’s Inequality under Einstein Locality Conditions
• Realization of Multi-Photon Entanglements (GHZ-states)
• Demonstration of GHZ Nonlocality
• Entanglement of the Orbital Angular Momentum of Photons
• Tests of a Leggett-type Nonlocal Hidden Variable Theory
• Nonlocal Delayed-Choice Experiments with Entangled Photons
• First Bell Experiment closing two Loopholes
• First Kochen-Specker Experiment with single Qutrits

Quantum Information, Quantum Communication and Quantum Computation

• First Experimental Observation of Hyper-Dense Coding
• First Teleportation of Independent Entangled Photons
• Experimental Entanglement Swapping
• First Experimental Observation of GHZ States
• Demonstration of Purification of Entangled Pairs
• First Quantum Cryptography with Entangled Photons
• First Experimental Realization of the One-Way Quantum Computer
• Grover’s Search Algorithm on a One-Way Quantum Computer
• Demonstration of a Nonlinear Sign-Shift Logical Gate
• First Demonstration of Decoherence-Free Quantum Computation
• Realization of a Photonic C-Not Gate
• Characterization and Conversion of GHZ and W States
• One-Way Quantum Computation with Active Feed-Forward
• Long-Distance Teleportation Across the River Danube
• Quantum Cryptography Over 144 km
• Detection of Single Photons Returning from a Satellite
• Realization of Quantum Games on a One-Way Quantum Computer
• Development of a Fully Automated Entangled-State Quantum Cryptography System
• Quantum Simulation of a Frustrated Heisenberg Spin Chain