Professor Dr. Hartmut Haeffner

Biography

Hartmut Häffner received his PhD in physics from the University of Mainz in Germany in 2000. Following this, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Mainz and Bangalore, India, under the Feodor-Lynen fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, before becoming a guest researcher at NIST in Gaithersburg (2000-2001). In 2001, he moved to the University of Innsbruck, Austria, as a university assistant and held a Marie Curie fellowship from the European Union from 2002 to 2004. From 2004 to 2009, he worked as a senior scientist at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Innsbruck, where he won the START award from the Austrian Ministry of Education in 2006, allowing him to build his own research group. In 2009, he became an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and is also affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His main research interests focus on trapped ions to achieve a deeper understanding of quantum mechanics with applications in quantum information processing.

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