Gregor Weihs
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Gregor Weihs is Professor of Photonics at the University of Innsbruck and Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (on leave), where he also holds the Canada Research chair in Quantum Photonics. He received his MSc degree from Innsbruck University in 1994. His PhD degree from Vienna University with Anton Zeilinger in 2000 was awarded "sub auspiciis praesidentis" by the President of the Austrian Republic. In his thesis Gregor Weihs performed a novel test of Bell's inequalities under strict Einstein locality conditions. He was then appointed to a junior faculty position at the Institute of Experimental Physics, Vienna University, where he conducted experimental research on quantum information. While being on leave from his position in Vienna he spent two and a half years as Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University collaborating with the group of Yoshihisa Yamamoto and Assistant Professor of Research at Tokyo University working on semiconductor quantum optics with Yasuhiko Arakawa's group. Gregor Weihs was DOC-fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; he won the Appreciation Award of the Austrian Ministry of Science and Transport and the Loschmidt-Prize of the Chemical-Physical Society in Vienna. His memberships include the Chemical-Physical, Austrian and American Physical Societies. He is a scholar in the QIP program of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research, and currently holds grants from NSERC, CFI, and Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, OCE, and QuantumWorks. His research interests include fundamental physics both experimental and theoretical, quantum and semiconductor optics and quantum information. He currently focuses on novel sources of entangled photon pairs and quantum key distribution. |
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