1983-89
Studies of Physics at the Universities of Bochum, Bonn, Munich (TU) and Diploma-Thesis:
"Sub-Poissonian Statistics in the One-Atom-Maser" with Prof. H. Walther, Munich
(MPQ)1989-92 Thesis with Prof. T. W. Hänsch, Munich (MPQ) "High-Resolution Spectroscopy of the 1S-2S Transition on a Cold Beam of Atomic Hydrogen" 1992-93 further experimental work on Hydrogen Spectroscopy
1993-95 Post-Doc with Prof. S. Haroche, Paris (ENS): "Cavity QED with Rydberg-Atoms and Superconducting Cavities"
1995- Universitätsassistent at Innsbruck with Prof. R. Blatt: "Single trapped cold ions and ion crystals for quantum information processing"
2001 Habilitation at Innsbruck
Gerard
Milburn obtained a PhD in theoretical Physics from the University of Waikato
in 1982 for work on squeezed states of light and quantum nondemolition measurements.
He subsequently was appointed a postdoctoral research assistant at the Department
of Mathematics, Imperial college London in 1983. In 1984 he was awarded a Royal
Society Fellowship to work in the Quantum Optics group of Professor P. Knight.
In 1985 was appointed lecturer at The Australian National University and in
1988 took up an appointment as Reader in Theoretical Physics at The University
of Queensland.
Professor
Ed Hinds is Director of the Sussex Centre for Optical and Atomic Physics in
the UK.
Paolo
Zanardi obtained his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Rome
"Tor Vergata" in 1996 with a thesis on "Linearization schemes for strongly correlated
fermionic systems on a lattice". Since 1996 he is working in the Quantum Information
Theory group at the ISI Foundation (Torino). His research interests include
among the others: general theory of noiseless quantum information processing
(QIP), implementation of QIP device with semiconductor nano-structures, geometrical/topological
quantum computation.
Martin
Rötteler received the Diploma degree in computer science from the University
of Karlsruhe in 1997. Subsequently, he joined the Graduiertenkolleg "Beherrschbarkeit
komplexer Systeme" financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Currently,
he is a member of the quantum computing group of Prof. Th. Beth in Karlsruhe.
The defense of his doctoral thesis on 'fast signal transforms for quantum computers'
has been in June 2001. His research interests include signal processing, computer
algebra, and quantum computing. 
Born
19th March 1973 in Dresden/ Germany. Study of physics at the universities of
Dresden (TU), Heidelberg and Cambridge from 1991 to 1997. Diploma in physics
from the University of Heidelberg in 1997. PHD student at the Theoretical quantum
optics group at the university of Munich since 1999. 
Mario
Rasetti is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Politecnico di Torino, where
he is also Director of the Graduate School. He has spent a large fraction of
his scientific life in the USA ( Coral Gables, where he was a student of Lars
Onsager, IAS, Princeton). His areas of interest include statistical mechanics,
quantum field theory, condensed matter physics (superconductivity, superfluidity),
quantum computation, non-linear dynamical systems. Mario Rasetti is the General
Secretary of the I.S.I. Foundation.
1972-1981
'Universitätsassistent', Atominstitut Wien, under Prof. H. Rauch
Ian
Walmsley received the B.Sc. degree in physics (1980) from Imperial ollege, University
of London, and his Ph.D. (1986) from The Institute of Optics, University of
Rochester. He was a postdoctoral research associate at Cornell University from
1986 to 1988 when he joined The Institute of Optics as an Assistant Professor.
Professor Walmsley's research interests are the fundamental physics of short
pulse lasers, new methods of time-resolved spectroscopy and the interaction
of radiation and matter on short time scales. Professor Walmsley is currently
a Professor in Optics at The Institute.
Born
1954
Gabriele
Bonfrate was born in 1972 in Milan, Italy. He received the Laurea degree in
Physics from Pisa University in 1996. From 1997 to 2000 he was at the Optoelectronics
Research Centre of Southampton University where, during his PhD, he worked on
Quasi-Phase-Matched optical parametric processes in poled optical fibres. He
was awarded his PhD in May 2000 and after spending six months as a Research
Fellow at Southampton he joined the Corning Research Centre in Ipswich in November
2000. He is now working on quantum cryptography systems and local access networks.
Natalia
Korolkova has received her PhD in theoretical quantum optics in 1996 from Moscow
State University. 1996/1997 she was appointed as a postdoctoral researcher at
the Department of Optics, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, in
the field of quantum statistics of light fields, non-classical light and quantum
cryptography. In 1997 she joined the Quantum Metrology group at Erlangen University,
Germany, as a Humboldt Fellow with topics quantum multimode correlations of
bright optical beams and quantum optics with fiber solitons. Since 1999 she
is a group leader of the Quantum Information group, Center of Modern Optics
at Erlangen University, Germany. Her current research interests are in the field
of quantum optics of ultrashort light pulses and quantum information using continuous
variables of light. The latter is focused on generation and evaluation of bright
beam entanglement and its applications in experimental quantum communication.
Simon
Bensasson was born in 1945. He took a degree in Architecture in 1969 and one
in Computer Science in 1972. Following a period of work as a consultant in computing
for the construction industry he formed Bensasson & Chalmers Ltd., a Software
House in Cambridge UK, developing novel DBMS and Information Management Systems.
He represented the UK in various European user associations and chaired the
CECUA working group on standards for five years. He joined the European Commission,
whose informatics architecture he had previously helped establish, in 1989 and
is currently the Head of the Future and Emerging Technologies Unit in the IST
Programme.
His
early career involved 10 years service as an officer in the Royal Australian
Navy (1969-79), during which he undertook his BSc degree at the Royal Australian
Naval College, Jervis Bay and UNSW. He served in 8 RAN ships and completed an
Operations and Weapons course with the Royal Navy, UK. RAN Ships Diving Officer.
Promoted to Lieutenant. 
Manfred
Bayer, born in 1965, received his diploma and his PhD at the University of Wuerzburg.
Currently he is leader of a research group working on 'Optical Spectroscopy
of III-V semiconductor quantum structures' at the Physikalisches Institut in
Wuerzburg. In 2001 he recived the Walter-Schottky-Award of the German Physical
Society for his work on microresonators.