Education
He obtained his Diploma 1992 and Doctorate 1994 in physics from the University of Göttingen.
He obtained his Diploma 1992 and Doctorate 1994 in physics from the University of Göttingen.
He is notable for his work on entanglement theory, quantum technology and quantum biology. In 1995 - 1997, he was a Feodor Lynen Fellow at Imperial College London. He was Lecturer (1998 - 2001), Senior Lecturer (2001 - 2003) and Full Professor (2003 - 2009) at Imperial College London.
In 2009 he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and moved to Ulm University where he is Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics and leads the Controlled Quantum Dynamics group.
He is also holding a part-time position at Imperial College London. In 2014 he was awarded €27Million for a research building to establish the Center for Quantum Biosciences of which he will be the founding director