André Stefanov
visits the VQCC

Asst. Prof. Dr. André Stefanov, from the University of Bern (Switzerland), visited the VQCC on April 10, 2024, and gave a talk about the recent free-space quantum communication experiments performed by the Quantum Optics Lab at this University. 

André received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Geneva in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2003 to 2008, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna and at the University of Bristol, working on quantum interference with large molecules and multiphoton quantum states for quantum information. From 2008 to 2011, he was the head of the Time and Frequency Laboratory, at the Federal Institute of Metrology in Bern-Wabern, Switzerland. Since 2012, he has been the group leader of the Quantum Metrology Laboratory, at the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Bern. His current research interests include the application of quantum states of light to new measurement methods as quantum imaging and quantum spectroscopy and the application of single photon imaging to investigate the propagation of light in scattering media.