Peter Zoller#
| Membership Number: | 3637 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003 - present Scientific Director, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Science
- 1994 - present Full Professor in Innsbruck
- 1991 Full Professor of Physics and JILA Fellow, JILA and Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder
- 1986 Visiting Professor Université de Paris-Sud 11, Orsay.
- 1981/82 and 1988 Visiting Fellow, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), and University of Colorado, Boulder
- 1980 Research with Dan Walls, Auckland, New Zealand.
- 1978/79 Max Kade-Postdoc Scholar with Peter Lambropoulos, University of Southern California
- 1977 Assistant Professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University Innsbruck
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantum physics
- Theoretical quantum optics and atomic physics
- Quantum information
- Quantum computing
- Quantum simulation
- Quantum communications
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Wolf-Prize in Physics
- 2011 Blaise-Pascal-Medal of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics
- 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics
- 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences
- 2006 Dirac-Medal (ICTP Trieste)
- 2006 6th International Quantum Communication Award
- 2005 Niels Bohr/UNESCO Gold Medal
- 2005 Max Planck Medal
- 2000 Senior Humboldt Award
- 1998 Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1998 Max Born Award
- 1998 Wittgenstein Award
- 2012 Honorary doctorate from the Free University of Amsterdam
- 2011 Member of European Academy of Sciences
- 2010 Member of Leopoldina
- 2008 Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, USA
- 2009 Foreign Associate of Spanish Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Netherlands
- 2001 Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
