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Biography
Education:
1970 - 1978 Humanistisches Gymnasium, Vienna
1978 - 1983 Study: physics and astronomy (TU-Wien, Univ. Wien)
1984 - 1987 PhD. Experimental physics, TU-Wien
1997 Habilitation: experimental physics (Univ. Innsbruck)
Professional Experience:
1983 - 1984 Researcher: EHS Experiment CERN
1985 - 1990 Assistent, Institut für Kernphysik, TU-Wien
1990 - 1991 Postdoc, Harvard University, Cambridge MA USA.
1992 - 1995 Postdoc+Visiting Scientist, MIT, Cambridge MA USA.
1993 - 1997 Assistent, Institut f. Experimentalphysik, Univ. Innsbruck
1997 - 2000 Ao Prof (with tenure) Universität Innsbruck
2000 - 2006 Chair of Experimental Physics, Universität Heidelberg
2003 - 2006 Guestprofessor Peking University, Beijing, China
2007 Chair of Experimental Physics, TU-Wien
2010 - 2016 Guestprofessor National Institut of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
Research Fellowships:
1981 CERN summer research student fellowship
1990-1992 Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship (FWF)
1994-1997 APART Fellowship, Austrian Academy of Science
Prizes:
1978 2nd prize at the Philips European Contest for Young Scientists and Inventors
1988 Viktor Hess prize (Austrian Physical Society)
1992 Excellence in Research and Development award: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1996 European Optics Prize, European Optical Society (with A. Zeilinger und colleagues)
2006 Wittgenstein Prize
2012 Wissenschaftspreis der Stadt Wien
2013 ERC Advanced Grant
Memberships:
2010 Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2013 Full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2014 Fellow of the American Physical Society