Gregor Weihs - CV
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Current Positions |
Vice-Rector for Research, Full Professor of Experimental Physics, |
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Education & Professional Career |
2021-2023 |
Head, Department for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck |
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2021 |
Chair, Faculty Council, Faculty for Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Innsbruck |
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2021 |
President (ad interim), Austrian Science Fund (FWF), March-April |
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2016-2021 |
Vice-President Natural Sciences and Engineering, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) |
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2013-2017 |
Head, Department for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck |
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2007-2010 |
Canada Research Chair in Quantum Photonics |
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2005-2012 |
Associate Professor, Institute for Quantum Computing & Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo |
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2004-2005 |
Assistant, Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna |
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2003-2004 |
Assistant Professor of Research, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo University, Group of Prof. Y. Arakawa |
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2001-2004 |
Consulting Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Group of Prof. Y. Yamamoto |
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2001 |
Visiting Scientist, ERATO Quantum Computation and Information Project, Tokyo, Japan (July-August) |
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2000 |
Graduation “Sub Auspiciis Praesidentis Rei Publicae Austriae” |
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1999-2005 |
Assistant (Junior Faculty), Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna (April 1) |
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Ph. D. oral defense, thesis on |
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Invited talk at the centennial meeting of the American Physical Society, Atlanta, USA |
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1998 |
“Vertragsassistent”, University of Innsbruck with Prof. Anton Zeilinger |
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1997 |
Research visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA and work on Interaction-free measurement |
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1994 |
Master of Science degree (summa cum laude), University of Innsbruck, thesis on Quantum interferometry with optical fiber multiports (December 17) |
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1993 |
Internship, Siemens Munich, Germany for |
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1991 |
Internship, Siemens Erlangen, Germany for the |
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1986–1989 |
Participation in the Austrian (winner in 1989) and International Physics Olympiad (silver medal 1989) |
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Awards & |
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 |
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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 |
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