Personal Data

Born August 26, 1971 in Innsbruck, Austrian citizen
Married to Birgit Weihs-Dopfer, Father to Gabriel and Julian Weihs

Current Position

Associate Professor, Institute for Quantum Computing and Department of Physics, University of Waterloo

Education & Professional Career

2002

Assistant Professor of Research, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo University, Group of Prof. Y. Arakawa

2001

Consulting Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Group of Prof. Y. Yamamoto

Visiting Scientist, ERATO Quantum Computation and Information Project, Tokyo, Japan (July-August)

2000

Graduation "Sub Auspiciis Praesidentis Rei Publicae Austriae" (with special honors by the president of the Austrian republic, March 13)

1999

Employment as Universitätsassistent with Prof. A. Zeilinger, Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna (April 1)

Ph. D. oral defense, thesis on An experiment to test Bell's inequality under Einstein locality (March 17)

Invited talk at the centennial meeting of the American Physical Society, Atlanta, USA

1998

Employment at the University of Innsbruck as "Assistent" with Prof. Anton Zeilinger

1997

Research visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA and work on Interaction-free measurement with Paul Kwiat

1994

Master of Science degree (summa cum laude) obtained at the University of Innsbruck, thesis on Quantum interferometry with optical fiber multiports (December 17)

1993

employed by Siemens Munich, Germany for Noise measurement on ultrafast silicon transistors

1991

employed by Siemens Erlangen, Germany for the Production and characterisation of epitaxial HTSC-layers

1986-1989

Participation in the Austrian (winner in 1989) and International Physics Olympiad (silver medal 1989)

Awards

Promotio sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae austriae
Loschmidt-prize of the Chemical-Physical Society of Vienna
Award of the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research and Transport
DOC fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Memberships

American Physical Society
Chemical-Physical Society of Vienna
Austrian Physical Society