Markus_Aspelmeyer
Markus_Aspelmeyer
Markus_Aspelmeyer
Career
He joined the group of Anton Zeilinger at the
University of Vienna in 2002 with a Feodor Lynen
PostDoctoral Fellowship of the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation. He became
Universitätsassistent at the university and then, Junior, Born 1974
later senior researcher, at the Institute for Quantum Schongau, Germany
Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Alma mater University of Munich
Austrian Academy of Sciences where he is leading a
Awards Lieben Prize (2007), ERC
research team working on quantum effects in micro-
Starting Grant (2009)
and nanomechanical systems. His research interests
are quantum entanglement and quantum optics. Scientific career
Fields Physicist
Institutions University of Vienna
Awards and honors Institute for Quantum Optics and
Quantum Information (IQOQI)
He was awarded the Lieben Prize in 2007 and an ERC Doctoral
Johann Peisl
Starting Independent Researcher Grant in 2009. He advisor
was offered chairs at the University of Oxford, the
University of Calgary and the University of Vienna
and currently holds the chair for Quantum Information on the Nanoscale at the University of Vienna. For
his work in quantum optics, quantum information and quantum-opto-mechanics he has received the
Fresnel Prize of the European Physical Society, the Ignaz Lieben Prize of the Austrian Academy of
Sciences and the Fritz-Kohlrausch Prize of the Austrian Physical Society. Together with Garrett Cole, co-
founding partner of Crystalline Mirror Solutions (CMS), he
received the second prize of the Berthold Leibinger
Innovationspreis in 2016 for the development of substrate-
transferred crystalline coatings. In December 2019 CMS was
acquired by Thorlabs Inc.