Contact
Allmandring 3
70569 Stuttgart
Germany
Subject
Quantum Information & Technology - please see our research page or follow me @StefanieBarz
Since 2022: Director, Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, IQST
Since 2017: Professor of Physics (W3), Institute for Functional Matter and Quantum
Technologies - Barz Group, University of Stuttgart
2015 - 2017: Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow (Individual fellowship “seQureNet”),
Ultrafast quantum optics and optical metrology group, Department of Physics,
University of Oxford, UK
2014 - 2015: Marie Curie fellow in the Initial Training Network “PICQUE”, Ultrafast
quantum optics and optical metrology group, Department of Physics,
University of Oxford, UK
2013 - 2014: Postdoctoral researcher, Quantum information sciences and quantum
computation group, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria
2009 - 2012: PhD in physics, Quantum Information and Foundations of Physics
group, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria
- 2015 Millard and Lee Alexander Fellowship, Christ Church, Oxford
- 2015 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, European Commission
- 2014 Doc.Award 2013, University of Vienna & City of Vienna
- 2014 Loschmidt Prize 2013, Austrian Chemical-Physical Society
- 2013 Dr. Maria Schaumayer Prize
- 2013 Finalist: German dissertation award (Deutscher Studienpreis), Koerber Foundation
- 2013 Finalist: PhD thesis award, American Physical Society (APS)
- 2013 Finalist: PhD thesis award, German Physical Society (DPG)
- 2012 Falling Walls Scholarship
- 2011 Laudimaxima Award 2010/2011
- 2010 Fellow of the career development program of the University of Vienna
- 2010 Best poster prize at the International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computation, Brisbane, Australia
- 2004 Erasmus scholarship of the European Union
- 2002 Award from the German Physical Society for the school achievements in physics (on the school's suggestion)
Since 2019: Member of the Board of trustees: Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart
Since 2019: Member of the Advisory Board: QuantERA network
Since 2018: Member of the Executive board: Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology
Since 2017: Member of the Stuttgart Center for Photonic Engineering and Member of the Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology
2017/2018: Dean of studies, Head of Examinations board, and Head of Admissions board (Studiendekanin Lehramt, Vorsitz Prüfungsausschuss Lehramt, Vorsitz Zulassungsausschuss Lehramt), University of Stuttgart
Invited talks
- Workshop on Quantum Simulations with Atoms and Light, Aarhus, Denmark (08/2018)
- Photonic quantum technologies: From foundations to applications, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Munich (07/2018)
- Photonic quantum technologies: From foundations to applications, International Max Planck Research School, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics, Stuttgart (07/2018)
- Quantum Computing, 5th British-German Frontiers of Science Symposium, Dorking, UK (06/2018)
- Photonic quantum technologies: From foundations to applications, Seminar talk, Institute for Semiconductor Engineering (01/2018)
- Photonic quantum technologies: From foundations to applications, Physics Colloquium, University of Stuttgart (11/2018)
- Distinguishability and Many-Particle Interference, Seminar talk, International Conference on Integrated Quantum Photonics, Rome, Italy (09/2017)
- Distinguishability and Many-Particle Interference, Seminar talk, Ulm University, Germany (07/2017)
- Distinguishability and Many-Particle Interference, Seminar talk, University of Vienna, Austria (07/2017)
- Quantum information with single photons, Photonics BW workshop, Stuttgart, Germany (06/2017)
- Distinguishability and Many-Particle Interference, Trustworthy Quantum Information Workshop, Paris, France (06/2017)
- Quantum interference and quantum walks
Seminar Talk, Nist Boulder, US (10/2016) - Quantum computing using photons
Seminar Talk, Vedral group, University of Oxford, UK (06/2016) - Realizing integrated quantum networks, algorithms, and simulations using photons: recent results and future challenges
Seminar talk, TU Delft, Netherlands (12/2015) - Realizing quantum networks and secure computations using photons
Seminar talk, University of Cambridge, UK (11/2015) - Realizing quantum networks with photons
Seminar Talk, University of Stuttgart, Germany (09/2015) - Realizing quantum networks and secure computations using photons
Seminar talk, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany (09/2015) - Realizing quantum networks, algorithms, and simulations using photons
Seminar talk, TU Delft, Netherlands (06/2015) - Experimental distributed quantum computing: recent results and future challenges
Workshop for Quantum Repeaters and Networks, Monterey, US (05/2015) - Quantum information processing with photons
Young Researchers Workshop, Muenster, Germany (05/2015) - Quantum information processing with photons: networks, verification, and algorithms
Colloquium Talk, University of Stuttgart, Germany (01/2015) - Recent results in photonic quantum information processing
Symposium on Optical Quantum Technologies (SoQUTE), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (11/2014) - Blind quantum and classical computing
Seminar Talk, Nist Boulder, US (10/2014) - Secure quantum computation
Euroscience Open Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark (06/2014) - Photonic quantum information processing in distributed networks
Symposium Quantum Physics, University of Ulm, Germany (06/2014) - Quantum Information Processing with Photons
Prize Talk for Loschmidt Society, University of Vienna, Austria (01/2014) - Quantum information processing with photons: algorithms, networks, and verification
Seminar Talk, University of Mainz, Germany (12/2013) - Quantum information processing with photons: algorithms, networks, and verification
Seminar Talk, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light,Erlangen, Germany (11/2013) - Photonic Quantum Computing
Seminar Talk, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, US (11/2013) - Photonic Quantum Computing
Seminar Talk, Nist Boulder, US (10/2013) - Photonic Quantum Computing
Seminar Talk, Oxford, UK (10/2013) - Photonic Quantum Computing
Seminar Talk, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (08/2013) - Photonic Quantum Computing
Seminar Talk, Bristol, UK (08/2013) - Die Quanten-Cloud - Wie Quantenphysik Informationstechnologien revolutioniert
Körber Foundation, Berlin, Germany (06/2013) - Photonic Quantum Computing
44th Annual DAMOP Meeting, Quebec City, Canada (06/2013) - Experimental Blind Quantum Computing
Seminar Talk, Toronto, Canada (05/2013) - Photonic Quantum Computing
DPG Spring Meeting, Hannover, Germany (03/2013) - Perfectly secure cloud computing
Falling Walls Lab, Berlin, Germany (11/2012) - Photonic quantum computing
Seminar Talk, Atominstitut, TU Vienna, Austria, (10/2012) - Photonic quantum computing: Recent results and future challenges
Seminar Talk, Telecom Paris Tech, France, (11/2011) - Photonic quantum computing: Recent results and future challenges
Seminar Talk, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan, (11/2011) - Blindfolding a Quantum Computer
NII Shonan-Meeting, Shonan, Japan, (11/2011) - A source of polarization-entangled photon pairs
Seminar Talk, IQOQI Vienna, Austria (11/2008) - A source of polarization-entangled photon pairs
Seminar Talk, University of Erlangen-Nuremburg, Germany (06/2008)
Contributed talks
- Distinguishability and Many-Particle Interference, DPG, March Meeting, Mainz, Germany (03/2017)
- Distinguishability in three-photon scattering
International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computation, Singapore (07/2016) - Secure Information Processing in Quantum Networks
Integrated Photonics Workshop, Oxford, UK (01/2015) - Photonic Quantum Computation and Quantum Simulation
Quantum Simulations Workshop, Benasque, Spain (09/2013) - Experimental Blind Quantum Computing
20th Central European Workshop on Quantum Optic, Stockholm, Sweden (06/2013) - Experimental Blind Quantum Computing
Workshop Quo vadis Quantum Physics, Natal, Brazil (03/2013) - Perfectly secure cloud computing
Falling Walls Lab, Vienna, Austria (06/2012) - Experimental demonstration of blind quantum computing
APS March Meeting, Boston, USA, (02/2012) - Experimental Blind Quantum Computing
Ecole de physique des Houches, France (07/2011) - Demonstration of a new aspect of quantum computing
ICOLS Student Workshop, Hannover, Germany, (06/2011) - Blindfolding a Quantum Computer
11th Meeting SFB FOQUS, Atominstitut, TU Wien, Austria, (05/2011) - Experimental Blind Quantum Computing
Seminar Talk, IQOQI Vienna, Austria (03/2011) - Heralded generation of entangled photon pairs
DPG Spring Meeting, Hannover, Germany (3/2010) - Recent results and future challenges of photonic quantum computation
5th Meeting SFB FOQUS, Atominstitut, TU Wien, Austria, (12/2009) - Heralded generation of entangled photon pairs
Seminar Talk, IQOQI Vienna, Austria (11/2009)
Poster Presentations
- Quantum-enhanced classical secure delegated computations
International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computation, Hefei, China (11/2014) - Experimental measurement-based quantum error correction
20th Meeting SFB FOQUS, University of Vienna, Austria, (05/2013) - Solving systems of linear equations on a quantum computer
20th Meeting SFB FOQUS, University of Vienna, Austria, (05/2013) - Experimental Demonstration of Blind Quantum Computing
International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computation, Vienna, Austria, (07/2012) - Experimental Demonstration of Blind Quantum Computing
International Conference on Quantum Optics, Obergurgl, Austria, (02/2012) - Experimental blind quantum computing
14th Meeting SFB FOQUS, University of Vienna, Austria, (12/2011) - Heralded generation of entangled photon pairs
Erwin Schroedinger Symposium, The Erwin Schroedinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria, (01/2011) - Heralded generation of entangled photon pairs
9th Meeting SFB FOQUS, University of Vienna, Austria, (12/2010) - Heralded generation of entangled photon pairs
International Conference on Quantum Information and Computation, Stockholm, Sweden (09/2010) - Heralded generation of entangled photon pairs
Marie Curie Network: EMALI, Meeting, Barcelona, Spain (09/2010) - Heralded generation of entangled photon pairs
International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computation, Brisbane, Australia (07/2010) - A source of polarization-entangled photon pairs
DPG Spring Meeting, Berlin, Germany (02/2008)
PhD thesis
Photonic quantum computing
Supervisor: Anton Zeilinger
University of Vienna (2012)
Diploma thesis
Eine Quelle polarisationsverschränkter Photonenpaare für das physikalische Praktikum für Fortgeschrittene (A source of polarization-entangled photon pairs)
Supervisor: Arno Rauschenbeutel
Mainz University (2008)
- Open Day at the University of Stuttgart: Interactive Quantum Experiments 2018 and 2019
- Invited presentation: secure quantum computation, Euroscience Open Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark (06/2014)
- Invited presentation: Perfectly secure cloud computing, Falling Walls Lab, Berlin, Germany (11/2012)
- Panel discussion: science and the media
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria (09/2012) - Exhibition “Quantenexperimente” at dOCUMENTA(13)
Kassel, Germany (09/2012) - Quantum physics and quantum computing
Manager Lounge, Vienna, Austria (03/2012)
University of Oxford
Spring 2017, tutor: quantum information theory
University of Vienna
Spring 2014, lecturer: photonic quantum computing
Spring 2013, teaching assistant: laboratory quantum optics
Fall 2012, lecturer: exercise course in Introductory Physics I
Fall 2012, teaching assistant: lecture in Introductory Physics I
Spring 2011, teaching assistant: laboratory quantum optics
Fall 2009, teaching assistant: laboratory quantum optics
Mainz University
Fall 2008, lecturer: computer science classes
Fall 2007, lecturer: computer science classes
Spring 2007, teaching assistant: physics for biologists
Fall 2006, teaching assistant: physics for biologists
Fall 2006, lecturer: computer science classes
Fall 2006, teaching assistant: lab course for biologists
Spring 2006, teaching assistant: physics for biologists
Spring 2006, lecturer: computer science classes
Spring 2006, teaching assistant: mathematics for physicists
- About me:
"Die Quantencomputer- Programmiererin", Der Standard (online/print), 14/02/2012 - About the work "Distinguishability and Many-Particle Interference":
Viewpoint: Photonic Hat Trick, Physics (online), 10/04/2017
Three-photon interference measured at long last Physics World (online), 17/04/2017 - About the work " Enhanced delegated computing using coherence":
Add a dash of quantum for secure cloud computing, New Scientist (online), 04/02/2015 - About the work "Experimental verification of quantum computation":
How to check if quantum computer is. . . quantum?, Technology.org (online), 03/09/2013
Quantum Computers Check Each Other's Work, ScienceNOW (online), 29/09/2013
Quantum computers: Trust is good, proof is better, APA (online), 02/10/2013
Der Quantencomputer prüft sich selbst, ORF (online), 30/09/2013
Researchers Trap Quantum Computer Into Proving Itself, Slashdot (online), 30/09/2013
Physicists use blind quantum computing, Phys.org (online), 30/09/2013
Wiener Physiker prüfen, ob Quantencomputer richtig rechnen, Der Standard (online), 30/09/2013
Wiener Physiker prüfen Quantencomputer, Futurezone (online), 30/09/2013
Quantum computing gets recursive. Quis custodiet ipsos quanta?, The Register (online), 01/10/2013
Quantum computers: Trust is good, proof is better, APA (online), 02/10/2013 - About my work "Experimental Demonstration of Blind Quantum Computing":
"Quantum computing could head to 'the cloud', study says", BBC (online), 19/01/2012
"A quantum leap is in the works for secure cloud computing", MSNBC (online), 19/01/2012
"First secure quantum computer is blind to its own bits", New Scientist (online), 19/01/2012
"Wiener Physiker bauen "absolut sicheren" Quantencomputer", Der Standard (online/print), 19/01/2012
"Quantencomputer rechnen blind und abhörsicher", Die Presse (online/print), 19/01/2012
"Cloud-Computing nach Quantenart", ORF (online), 20/01/2012
"Who Knew? Quantum Mechanics Will Enable Secure Cloud Computing", Digital Village Radio (audio), 21/01/2012
"Blind quantum computing points to the future", Deutsche Welle (online, audio), 09/02/2012
"Ordinateur quantique: Un calculateur pas encore prodige", Le Monde, 25/02/2012
"A blind quantum computer makes its laboratory debut", Physics today (online), 03/2012
"De quantumcomputer krijgt een blinddoek", NWT magazine, 04/2012 - About my work "Heralded generation of entangled photon pairs":
“Vorhersage verschränkter Photonen”, Photonik 4/2010 (print), 18/08/2010
„Quantencomputer : Zwei Schritte zum Ziel“, ORF ONLINE – Science (online), 28/06/2010
„Angekündigte Zufälle, Wiener Physiker kommen Quantencomputer noch näher“, Der Standard (online/print), 28 and 29/06/2010
„Wiener Physiker können neuerdings den Zufall ankündigen“, Der Standard (online), 29/06/2010
„Quantenphysik: Angekündigter Zufall“, Österreich Journal (online), 28/06/2010
„Angekündigter Zufall“, Die Universität Online, 28/06/2010
„Verschränkte Teilchen, die man nicht messen muss“, Die Presse (online/print), 28 and 29/06/2010
„Angekündigter Zufall: Neue Photonenquelle ermöglicht Nachweis von verschränktem Zustand ohne Messung“, ProPhysik (online), 28/06/2010
„Wiener Physiker können nun “den Zufall ankündigen”, krone.at (online), 28/06/2010
„Wiener Quantenphysiker zähmen den Zufall“, ORF Futurezone, 27/06/2010