Gregor Weihs, IQC, University of Waterloo
QuantumWorks Researcher
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Gregor Weihs received his MSc degree from Innsbruck University in 1994. His PhD degree from Vienna University with Anton Zeilinger in 2000 was awarded sub auspiciis praesidentis by the President of the Austrian Republic. In his thesis Gregor Weihs performed a novel test of Bells inequalities under strict Einstein locality conditions. He was then appointed Universitaetsassistent at the Institute of Experimental Physics, Vienna University, where he conducted fundamental quantum physics research. While being on leave from his position in Vienna he spent two and a half years as Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University and Assistant Professor of Research at Tokyo University working on semiconductor quantum optics. Gregor Weihs was DOC-fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; he won the Appreciation Award of the Austrian Ministry of Science and Transport and the Loschmidt-Prize of the Chemical-Physical Society in Vienna. His memberships include the Chemical-Physical, Austrian, Canadian and American Physical Societies. He authored more than 40 scientific publications in refereed journals which have been cited more than 1000 times and his research interests include fundamental physics both experimental and theoretical, quantum and semiconductor optics and quantum information. Recently he worked on the topics higher-order entanglement, quantum communication protocols and coherent effects in semiconductors. Gregor Weihs was born on August 26th 1971 in Innsbruck, Austria, is married to Birgit Weihs-Dopfer and has 2 children.