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Tilman Pfau

Prof. Dr.

Head of Institute
5. Physikalisches Institut

Pfaffenwaldring 57
70569 Stuttgart
Deutschland
Room: 4.163

For appointments please contact the institute's administrative office.

Summer Semester 2023:

n/a

Winter Semester 2022/2023:

n/a Sabbatical

Summer Semester 2022:

Grundlagen der Experimentalphysik 4
Physikalisches Hauptseminar: Quantumsimulation and -computing with ions and neutral atoms

Winter Semester 2021/2022:

Summer Semester 2021:

Winter Semester 2020/2021:

Summer Semester 2020:

Winter Semester 2019/2020:

Summer Semester 2019:

Winter Semester 2018/2019:

Tilman Pfau

Full Professor holding a chair for Photonics

Institute director, 5. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart

Education

Work experience

Since 07/2022: Executive Director of the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung Center for Quantum Photonics (CZS Center QPhoton)
2014 - 2022: Founding Director of the Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology IQ^ST
Since 01/2000 Full Professor and founding director of the 5. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart
09/1994 - 04/1999 Postdoc and project leader atom optics, Universität Konstanz, group of Prof. J. Mlynek

Research stays

01 - 03/2023 Guest professor at Swinburne University, Melbourne
05 - 08/2016 Visiting professor at ITAMP and CUA (MIT/Harvard), Cambridge
07 - 08/2013 Visiting fellow at JILA, Boulder, group of Prof. J. Ye
04 - 07/2010 Guest professor at the University of Toronto, group of Prof. J. Thywissen
08/2007 Guest professor at the Tsinghua University of Beijing, group of Prof. J. W. Pan
04 - 07/2005 Guest professor at Helsinki University of Technology, group of Prof. I. Tittonen
05 -12/1999 Feodor-Lynen fellow of the Alexander v. Humboldt-Foundation, group of Prof. W. Ketterle MIT, Boston
09 - 11/1997 and 02 - 04/1995 Postdoc at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel ENS, Paris, group of Profs. C. Cohen-Tannoudji, M. Leduc, Ch. Salomon

Awards, Honors

2023 Senior BEC Award
2022 selected as Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review journals of the APS
2021 Advanced Investigator Grant of the European Research Council
2017 Herbert P. Broida Prize of the American Physical Society
2016 Inaugural Alexander Dalgarno lecturer at Harvard University
2014 Gentner-Kastler Prize of the Société Française de Physique and the DPG
2014 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
2010 Advanced Investigator Grant of the European Research Council
2010 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2008 Elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America
1999 Feodor Lynen fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1998 Rudolf-Kaiser Award
1995 Byk Award of the Herbert-Quandt Foundation of the Altanta AG for the PhD thesis

Scientific Boards

Member of the award committee of the DPG “Herbert Walther Award” (since 2020)
Advisory Board ITAMP (2015 - 2018)
Founding Director of the Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology IQST (2014 - 2022)
European Research Council Panel Member for ERC Consolidator Grant (2014 – 2020)
Member of the board of the Kepler seminar (Heidehof foundation)
Advisory Board The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (Excellence Cluster CUI)
Member of the state board for the reformation of the high school education system in Baden-Württemberg (2012)
Review Board Member (Fachkollegiat) at German science foundation (2008 - 2012)
Advisory Board Journal of Physics B (2006 - 2012)

Activities at the Faculty and the University

Since 2022: Speaker and Director of the Carl-Zeiss-Foundation Center for Quantum Photonics Jena - Stuttgart – Ulm
Since 2021: Coordinator of BMBF-funded Consortium “QRydDemo” (Quantum Computing with Rydberg atoms)
2017: Installation of the unit “Physics Didactics Research” at 5. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart
Since 2016: Coordinator of DFG Priority Programme 1929 "Giant Interactions in Rydberg Systems" (GiRyd)
2014 - 2022: Founding Director of the Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology (IQ^ST)
2012: Local organizer of the Spring meeting of the DPG in Stuttgart (2.300 participants)
2010 - 2019: Elected member of senate of the University of Stuttgart
2009 - 2017: Scientific coordinator of a high school physics day lab at the faculty
2005 - 2017: Spokesman of the SFB/TRR 21
2004: Scientific coordinator of a physics festival in Stuttgart (25.000 visitors)
2003: Organizer of a temporary hands-on exhibition “experimenta” (15.000 visitors)
01/2001 - 06/2003: Spokesman of the DFG research group "quantum gases"
2000 - 2002: Vice dean of the Physics Department at the University of Stuttgart