Gregor Weihs
Phone: +43 512 507-52550
Email: gregor.weihs@uibk.ac.at
ORCID: 0000-0003-2260-3008
ResearcherID: G-2564-2013
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Gregor Weihs is Vice-Rector for Research at the University of Innsbruck, Professor of Photonics at the Institute for Experimental Physics and Director of Research of the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Science Austria.
He received his MSc degree from Innsbruck University in 1994. His PhD degree from Vienna University was awarded "sub auspiciis praesidentis" by the President of the Austrian Republic in 2000.
Before returning to Innsbruck he held a junior faculty position at the University of Vienna, was Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo, and Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he was awarded the Canada Research Chair in Quantum Photonics.
From 2016 to 2021 he was the Vice-President for Natural Sciences and Engineering of Austrian Science Fund and its interim President for several months.
Other major awards include a Starting Grant by European Research Council and the Wilhelm-Exner medal of the Austrian Trade and Crafts Association. He was a member of the Young Academy of the the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a Fellow in the QIP program of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
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 from nonlinear waveguides, via strong coupling in semiconductor microcavities, and from semiconductor quantum dots. He further does research in quantum communication and the foundations of physics.
Main Areas of Research
Quantum Information, Quantum Communication and Cryptography, Quantum Optics, Semiconductor Quantum Optics, Integrated Quantum Photonics, Foundations of Physics
Current Positions
- Vice-Rector for Research, University of Innsbruck
- Full Professor of Experimental Physics, Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck
- IQC Affiliate, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Education & Professional Career
Career-related activities
2011 – 2016 Member, Equal Opportunities Board, University of Innsbruck
2016 – 2017 Subcommittee chair, CLEO Europe / EQEC 2017, Munich, Germany
2017 Technical Program Committee Member, CLEO Pacific Rim 2017, Singapore
2014 – 2015 Subcommittee chair, CLEO Europe / EQEC 2015, Munich, Germany
2015 – 2016 Co-Director of the Young Academy of Austria
2014 Program Committee Co-Chair, QCRYPT 2014, Paris, France
2014 Organizer, 2nd Intl. Workshop on Engineering of Quantum Emitter Properties, Innsbruck, Austria
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