Ryszard Horodecki - Biography#
Ryszard Horodecki is professor in theoretical physics, graduated as an Msc Eng. of electronics, received PhD on broadening of optical lines due to di-atomic molecule collisions and become a specialist in foundations of particle-wave dualism in 80-s. He pioneered quantum information in Poland since mid. 90-s, providing with his collaborators fundamental contributions to quantum entanglement theory, the achievements that made Gdańsk (together with those of quantum interferometry by professor Marek Żukowski) a worldwide recognised quantum information centre. Ryszard Horodecki has pioneered the EU projects in Poland in quantum information. He received numerous awards in Poland.
Author of 93 papers cited above 12 500 (h-index 39 and average citation 136 per item). His achievements include well-known contributions to the theory of quantum entanglement: providing framework for practical entanglement detection in terms of entanglement witnesses theory; discovery of irreversible form of entanglement called bound entanglement; contributions to quantifying entanglement; linking quantum correlations with thermodynamics; identification of general quantum teleportation channel; no-local-broadcasting theorem; formulation of theory of objectivity i.e. emergence of classical features from quantum dynamics. Leader of numerous projects, in particular: (i) node leader of EU projects: EQUIP (2000-2002) – the first EU project on quantum information, QUPRODIS and RESQ (2003-2005), SCALA IP (2005-2009); leader of ERC AdG QOLAPS (2012-2016) - only 4 grants of that type in Poland have been realised so far; (ii) leader of Polish projects Ideas Plus MNiSW(2011-2014), Maestro NCN (2011-2014), and other projects from state agencies. In 2007 he established National Quantum Information Centre of Gdansk, with participating 7 Polish universities, and 2 PAS institutes. He had run the Centre for more than 10 years as a director and organized 10 international symposia gathering top scientists in quantum information.
