Fabian Steinlechner
visits the VQCC

On September 10, 2026, Prof. Fabian Steinlechner from University of Jena (Germany) visited the VQCC to discuss potential scientific collaborations in the field of quantum communication. During his visit, he gave a talk entitled “High-dimensional free-space quantum communication”. 

Fabian received his PhD in 2015 from ICFO (Barcelona, Spain) where his doctoral research focused on the development of quantum light sources for applications in Space. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna, he contributed to the application of entangled photons in loophole-free tests of non-locality, quantum sensing, high-dimensional quantum information processing, and long-distance quantum communication in free-space and fiber links. In 2018, he established the “Quantum Communication Technology” group at Fraunhofer IOF via the Attract program. Since 2020 he is acting as group leader of the “Active and Adaptive Optics” group at IOF and the “Photonic Quantum Information” group at the Institute of Applied Physics, where he received a call to become full professor in 2023. His research group focuses on photonic technology for generating and manipulating complex quantum states of light for applications in remote sensing, long-range quantum communication, quantum information processing and distributed quantum networks.