Draft:Philip Walther

Philip Walther is an Austrian experimental quantum physicist.

Walther studied chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology, receiving his degree in 2002. He joined the research group of Anton Zeilinger at the University of Vienna for his PhD. From 2005 - 2008 he did his postdoctoral research with Mikhail Lukin at Harvard University. Since 2015 Philip Walther is a professor for experimental quantum optics at the University of Vienna..

His reserach interests are quantum computing, quantum cybersecurity, quantum optics and relativistic quantum photonics, focusing on fundamental research and experimental investigations in quantum science, as well as the development of advanced photonic quantum technology for applications in quantum information processing.

He has been awarded with the Loschmidt-Prize of the Chemical-Physical Society in 2005, the Fresnel Prize in Fundamental Aspect of the European Physical Society as well as with the START Prize by the Austrian Ministry of Science and Education in 2011, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2021. In 2022 Philip Walther received an ERC Synergy Grant.

In 2023, Philip Walther co-founded Qubo Technology GmbH, a quantum hardware company focusing on quantum-enhanced secure digital payments and quantum machine learning