Gregor Weihs - CV – University of Innsbruck

Gregor Weihs - CV

Current Positions	Vice-Rector for Research, University of Innsbruck Full Professor of Experimental Physics, Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck Vice-President Natural Sciences and Engineering Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Education & Professional Career	since 2021	Head, Department for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck
Education & Professional Career	since 2021	Chair, Faculty Council, Faculty for Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Innsbruck
	2021	President (ad interim), Austrian Science Fund (FWF), March-April
	2016-2021	Vice-President Natural Sciences and Engineering, Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
	2013-2017	Head, Department for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck
	2007-2010	Canada Research Chair in Quantum Photonics
	2005-2012	Associate Professor, Institute for Quantum Computing & Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
	2004-2005	Assistant, Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna Completed Habilitation for Experimental Physics (August 31, 2005)
	2003-2004	Assistant Professor of Research, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo University, Group of Prof. Y. Arakawa
	2001-2004	Consulting Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Group of Prof. Y. Yamamoto
	2001	Visiting Scientist, ERATO Quantum Computation and Information Project, Tokyo, Japan (July-August)
	2000	Graduation “Sub Auspiciis Praesidentis Rei Publicae Austriae” (with special honors by the president of the Austrian republic, March 13)
	1999-2005	Assistant (Junior Faculty), Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna (April 1)
		Ph. D. oral defense, thesis on An experiment to test Bell’s inequality under Einstein locality (March 17)
		Invited talk at the centennial meeting of the American Physical Society, Atlanta, USA
	1998	“Vertragsassistent”, University of Innsbruck with Prof. Anton Zeilinger
	1997	Research visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA and work on Interaction-free measurement
	1994	Master of Science degree (summa cum laude), University of Innsbruck, thesis on Quantum interferometry with optical fiber multiports (December 17)
	1993	Internship, Siemens Munich, Germany for Noise measurements on ultrafast silicon transistors
	1991	Internship, Siemens Erlangen, Germany for the Production and characterisation of epitaxial HTSC-layers
	1986–1989	Participation in the Austrian (winner in 1989) and International Physics Olympiad (silver medal 1989)
Awards & Distinctions	Wilhelm Exner Medal of the Austrian Trade and Crafts Association Young Academy Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ERC Starting Grant of the European Research Council Canada Research Chair in Quantum Photonics Early Researcher Award, Province of Ontario Promotio sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae austriae Loschmidt-prize of the Chemical-Physical Society of Vienna Award of the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research and Transport DOC fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Memberships	American Physical Society, Chemical-Physical Society of Vienna, Austrian Physical Society, Canadian Association of Physicists, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Optical Society of America