Stefanie Barz
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Stefanie Barz | |
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| Alma mater | University of Vienna Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| Known for | Photonic quantum technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Stuttgart University of Oxford University of Vienna |
| Thesis | Photonic Quantum Computing |
| Doctoral advisor | Anton Zeilinger |
Stefanie Barz is a German physicist and Professor of Quantum Information and Technology at the University of Stuttgart working in the field of photonic quantum technology.[1]
Barz studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, with a stay at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology within the Erasmus Programme.[2] She earned her PhD from the University of Vienna under the supervision of Anton Zeilinger, working on various aspects of photonic quantum computing, including 'blind' quantum computing using entangled photons, where the sender knows the initial state of entanglement while companies in control of data processing do not, making it impossible for them to decode the information without destroying it.[3][4][5][6] For her dissertation she was awarded the Laudimaxima Prize of the University of Vienna,[2][7] and her work has been featured in New Scientist and covered by the BBC and NBC.[5][8] In 2013 Barz was awarded the Maria Schaumayer Prize[9] and the Loschmidt Prize.[10]
From 2014 to 2017, Barz was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow as well as a Millard and Lee Alexander Fellow in the Christ Church College at the University of Oxford. She worked with Ian Walmsley on three-photon interference,[11][12][13] during which project she created integrated photon sources, fibre components and waveguide circuits.[14]
