Harald Weinfurter earned his doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology in 1987 and
completed his habilitation at the University of Innsbruck in 1996, focusing on Quantum
Interferometry. From 1988 to 1991, he worked at the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin and then
served as a university assistant in Innsbruck from 1991, where he was part of Anton Zeilinger’s
group (who later won the Nobel Prize in 2022). From 1996 to 1999, he was an APART research
fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 1999, he has been a Professor of Quantum
Optics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
His research interests include quantum entanglement and quantum cryptography. Notably, he
and Christian Kurtsiefer set a record in 2002 by transmitting a tap-proof message over 23.4
kilometers between Zugspitze and Karwendel.
Harald has received several prestigious awards, including the Fritz Kohlrausch Prize and the
Start Prize in 1996, the Philip Morris Research Prize in 2003 (shared with Christian Kurtsiefer), the
Descartes Prize in 2004 for the IST-QuComm project, and the Copernicus Prize in 2014. Since
2010, he has been a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching. In 2023,
he assumed the Wacław Szybalski Chair at the University of Gdańsk.
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