Anton Zeilinger#
© Jacqueline Godany
| Membership Number: | 2938 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.iqoqi-vienna.at/de/team/person/anton-zeilinger |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - 2022 President of Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2004 Scientific director, IQOQI, Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
- 1999 Full professor of Experimental physics, University of Vienna
- 1990 - 1999 Full professor of experimental physics, University of Innsbruck
- 1988 - 1989 Full professor of physics, Technical University of Munich
- 2001 - 2004 Senior Humboldt Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin
- 1995 Chaire Internationale, College de France, Paris
- 1986 - 1989 Adjunct Full professor, part time, Hampshire College, Amherst, USA
- 1983 - 1990 Regular summer research appointments at M.I.T. USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantum computation, communication, teleportation and cryptography
- Fundamental investigations concerning (quantum) information
- Quantum information processing resources ( entanglement, non-locality)
- Fundamental investigations in quantum physics, theory, experiments and paradoxes
- Quantum optics, neutron interferometry, neutron, atom and molecule optics, mesoscopic physics
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 (jointly with Alain Aspect and John F. Clauser) “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”
- 2019 Micius Quantum Foundation Prize
- 2017 John Stewart Bell Prize
- 2015 Willis-E.-Lamb-Preis (2015)
- 2012 Finalist für den World Technology Award for Communications Technology
- 2010 Wolf-Prize in Physics, Wolf Foundation, Israel, 2010
- 2009 Foreign member, Académie des Sciences, Institut de France
- 2008 Quantum Communication award, Tamagawa University, Japan
- 2008 Isaac Newton Medal, Institute of Physics, UK
- 2005 Member of German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
- 2005 Descartes prize, European Commission
- 2005 Grand Gold Decoration, City of Vienna
- 2002 Member of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- 2004 Lorenz-Oken-Medal, Society of German Researchers and Physicians, Germany
- 2004 Klopsteg Award, American Association of Physics Teachers
- 2001 Austrian equivalent to the Order of Merit
- 1998 Member of Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2013 president
- 1996 Austrian Scientist of the Year
- Honorary doctorates from Gdansk and Humboldt universities
