Quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger was born in 1945 in Ried/Innkreis and is one of the most significant physicists today. He has been running the Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna since 1999. He teaches and researches on the theoretical and experimental principles of quantum physics and its use in quantum communication, quantum teleportation, and quantum computers.
He was associate professor at MIT from 1981 to 1983. From 1983 to 1990, he taught as associate professor at TU Vienna and as a visiting professor in Melbourne, Amherst (USA), Grenoble, and Munich. He was active as full professor at the University Innsbruck from 1990 to 1999, with visiting professorships in Paris and Oxford. He has been director (vice) of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2004. He is a member of several academies and has received numerous national and international prizes and awards.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born May 20, 1945 in Ried/Innkreis in Upper Austria
Married since 5/27/1972 to Mag. pharm. Elisabeth Z., nee Benka,
3 children: Anna (1974), Anton (1977), Matthias (1981).
Austrian citizen
CURRENT POSITION
Since 1999 Full university professor, Head of the Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna.
Address: Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
2004 Director (vice), Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information,
Austrian Academy of Sciences
2000 Member, European Academy of Arts and Sciences
1999 Full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ÖAW
1999 Full university professor for Experimental Physics, Vienna
1998 Visiting Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford University
1996 Chair of the Austrian Physical Society
1996 European Lecturer 1996 (European Physical Society)
1995 Visiting professor, Collège de France, Paris
1994 Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy
of Sciences (ÖAW)
1990 – 1999 Full university professor for Experimental Physics, Innsbruck
1988 – 1989 University professor (C4), Endowed professorship TU Munich,
1988 Visiting Lecturer, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Grenoble
1986 – 1989 Adjunct Full Professor, part-time, Hampshire College, Amherst, U.S.A.
1984 Visiting Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia
1983 – 1990 Associate university professor, TU Vienna.
1981 – 1983 Associate Professor of Physics at M.I.T, U.S.A.
1979 Postdoctoral professional quaification, TU Vienna
1977 – 1978 Fulbright Fellow in the U.S.A., Research Associate at M.I.T.
with Professor C. G. Shull (Nobel Laureate 1994)
1972 – 1981 University assistant, Atomic Institute
1971 Dr. phil. University of Vienna, Dissertation with Prof. H. Rauch
CURRENT AREAS OF RESEARCH
Fundamental experiments in quantum physics, experiment and theory
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox
Quantum optics of correlated photons
Coherent atomic optics, atom interferometry
Neutron optics, neutron interferometry
Tests for quantum mechanics
Quantum cryptography, quantum communication
Basic physical principles of a quantum computer
Quantum teleportation
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Author or publisher of 7 books
Over 350 scientific publications
Over 600 invitations to hold presentations at conferences and universities all over the world
ACADEMIC CITATIONS
Some articles have become classics among academic citations. The article "Experimental Quantum Teleportation" (Nature, 1997) was in the top 10 of the most frequently cited academic articles in 1998 and by January 2005 had been cited over 670 times (see "ISI Web of Science").
ACTIVITY AS AN ACADEMIC PUBLISHER
Editorial Board, Foundations of Physics-Letters (since 1988)
Editorial Board, Physical Review A (since 1994)
Co-editor ‘Frontiers of Neutron Scattering’, North-Holland 1986
Co-editor ‘Matter-Wave Interferometry’, North-Holland 1988
Co-editor ‘Quantum Interferometry’, World Scientific 1994
Co-editor ‘Fundamental Problems in Quantum Theory’,
New York Academy of Sciences 1995
Co-editor ‘Experimental and Epistemological Foundations of Quantum Physics’,
Vienna Circle Yearbook 1999
PRIZES AND AWARDS
1975 City of Vienna young scientist award
1979 Cardinal Innitzer prize
1980 Theodor Körner prize
1984 Sir Thomas Lyle Fellow, University of Melbourne
1995 Prix "Vinci d’Excellence," Fondation LVHM, Paris
1996 Cardinal Innitzer honorary prize
1996 Austrian scientist of the year
1997 ‘Welsh Lecturer’, University of Toronto
1997 European Optics Prize, European Optical Society
1998 Honorary Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
1999 Fellow, American Physical Society
2000 Member, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea
2000 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation prize
2000 Science award from the City of Vienna
2001 Member of the Orden Pour le mérite for sciences and arts
2001 Decoration for science and art from the Republic of Austria
2001 "Visionary 2001," ORF and Der Standard Österreich
2001 "World Future Award 2001," Men’s World Day
2001 "Erwin Wenzl Prize 2001," Upper Austria
2002 Chemerda Lecturer, Pennsylvania State University
2002 Full member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
2002 Johannes Kepler prize, Upper Austria
2003 Sartorius prize, Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
2004 Klopsteg Memorial Lecture Award, AAPT
(American Association of Physics Teachers)
2004 Lorenz-Oken medal from the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors
2005 King Faisal prize from the King Faisal Foundation, Saudi Arabia
2005 Member, German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
2005 Honorary member, Learned Society of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
2005 Honorary doctorate Humboldt University, Berlin
2005 Wilhelm-Exner medal, Österreichischer Gewer