Prof. Dr. Christian Ospelkaus

Institute of Quantum Optics - Professor, Executive Board
Trapped-Ion Quantum Engineering - Group Leader
QuantumFrontiers - Light and Matter at the Quantum Frontier (Cluster of Excellence 2123) - Member
CRC 1227: DQ-mat - Member, Executive Board
Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering (LNQE) - Member, Executive Board

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4170-2936

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Research interests

Physics of trapped ions
Quantum computing
Quantum optics
Precision measurements with single ions
Penning traps

Academic career and education

Since 2023	Leibniz Universität Hannover and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, W3 Professor for Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ions
Since 2017	Osaka University, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Guest Professor
2010-2022	Leibniz Universität Hannover and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, W2 Professor for Experimental Quantum Optics
2007-2010	NIST Boulder, CO, USA, Guest Researcher in the group of David J. Wineland
2002-2006	Universität Hamburg, Dissertation "Fermi-Bose mixtures - From mean-field interactions to ultracold chemistry" in the group of Klaus Sengstock
2000-2001	Université de Fribourg, CH, Diplomarbeit "Measurement of the electric tensor polarizability of the ¹³³Cs ground state" in the group of Antoine Weis
1996-2001	Rheinischen Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Physics (Diplom)

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Latest publications

Published
Resolved-sideband cooling of a single Be + 9 ion in a cryogenic multi-Penning-trap for discrete symmetry tests with (anti-)protons
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer review
Published
Image-Current Mediated Sympathetic Laser Cooling of a Single Proton in a Penning Trap Down to 170 mK Axial Temperature
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer review
Published
Arbitrary quantum circuits on a fully integrated two-qubit computation register for a trapped-ion quantum processor
Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Research › peer review

Latest prizes

Falling Walls Winner, Physical Sciences
Prize
ERC Starting Grant "QLEDS"
Prize: Other distinction
Boulder Laboratories Postdoctoral Poster Symposium Outstanding Presentation Award
Prize

Latest projects

European Quantum Technologies Conference 2023, Hannover, 16.10.23-20.10.23
Project: Research
Collaborative Research Centre 1227/2, sub-project A01: Trapped-ion quantum magnetism
Project: Research
Collaborative Research Centre 1227/2, sub-project B06: Quantum metrology with trapped (anti-)protons
Project: Research