Christof Wunderlich

University of Siegen

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Prof. Christof Wunderlich holds a chair in experimental physics (quantum optics) at the University of Siegen, Germany, where he focuses on quantum information processing with trapped atomic ions. In 2020 he co-founded eleQtron GmbH, the first German start-up company for quantum computer hardware. He has been actively involved in numerous highly rated European and German research projects, including one of the first European Integrated Projects in Quantum Information Science.  Christof holds a master's degree in physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. He received his PhD for his research on light-induced molecular potentials in intense laser fields with T. W. Hänsch (Nobel Prize 2005, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Munich, Germany). Later, he joined the group of Serge Haroche (Nobel Prize 2012, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) and was privileged to participate in experiments on fundamental questions of quantum physics. He habilitated in 2002, developing novel concepts for groundbreaking experiments with the trapped-ion pioneers P. E. Toschek and W. Neuhauser at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

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