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Dr. Rupert Ursin is a group leader and senior scientist at the IQOQI. His main field of research is to develop quantum communication and quantum information processing technologies, mainly for free-space, but also for fibre-based systems. The scope of his work ranges from near term engineering solutions for secure key sharing (quantum cryptography) to more speculative research (de-coherence of entangled states in gravitational fields). Experiments on quantum communication and teleportation using entangled photon pairs is also among his interests, with the long- term goal of a future global quantum network based on quantum repeaters. He has been experimentally active in numerous international collaborations in Germany, Italy, Spain, USA as well as in China and Japan. Lead several ESA funded projects as well as on the national and EU level. These allowed him to perform highly recognized experimental studies e.g. on a 144 km free-space link between La Palma and Tenerife [1] (cited more than 450 times). His group is performing time-energy entanglement distribution over a turbulent atmosphere just recently [5]. To date he and his publication recived several international awards and prizes. He was invited to several prestigious conferences to deliver talks (e.g. IEEE, SPIE, QCMC and others) and serves to important conferences as a program committee member e.g. ICSOS, SPIE, QCrypt and others. He currently holds a guest professorship at the University of Science and Technology (USTC) in Shanghai, China.

Research interests

Research interests include fundamental physics experiments on topics related to quantum optics and quantum information and their applications. Focus on the development of technologies required to perform space-based experiments concerning quantum information technologies. Numerous project partners in various fields (academic as well as industrial) together with national space agencies and the European Space Agency (ESA) are involved in this project. Contacts to international collaborators in Japan, China and USA are important partners to perform quantum communication on a global scale.

• Quantum Information science
• Quantum cryptography
• Space science
• Space Technology
   

Education / Professional History:

• 2011 – now: Deputy Director at the  Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 2009 – 2011:  Senior Scientist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 2006 – 2009: University Assistant at the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna
• 2005 – 2006: Postdoc at the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna
• 2002 – 2006: Ph.D. thesis (Dr. rer. nat) at University of Vienna, Group of Prof. Zeilinger on ”Quantenteleportation über lange Distanzen” (with distinction)
• 2000 – 2002:  Master Thesis (Mag. rer. nat.) at the Austria Academy of Science, at the ATRAP experiment atCERN, Geneva, Switzerland on ”Antiprotonmonitor am ATRAP Experiment” (with distinction)
   

Research / Career History:

• 2010 – now: Research activities at USTC, Shanghai, China
• 2005 – now: Space QUEST activities (ESA related activities)
• 2008: Research activities with NICT, Tokyo, Japan
• 2005 – now: Measurementcampaign on the Canary islands of La Palma and Tenerife at ESA’s Optical Ground Station (OGS), Tenerife, Spain
• 2004: Research activities at MPQ Garching. Munich, Germany
• 2003: Reseach activities at MLRO Laser Ranging Station with optical retroreflecting satellites, Matera, Italy
• 2001 – 2005: Long-distance quantum teleportation, Vienna, Austria
• 1999 – 2001: Research Activities on Antihydrogen Spectoscopy Experiment (ATRAP) at the Antiproton Decelerator at CERN. Geneva, Switzerland
• 1998: Research Activities on Pionic Hydrogen experiments at the Proton Accelerator in Paul Scherer Institute (PSI). Villigen, Switzerland 
• 1998: Research Activities on Kaonic Hydrogen experiment at DAFNE Particle Accelerator in Laborator Nationale di Frascatti (INFN). Frascati, Italy

A more detailed CV is available upon request.