Alessandro Fedrizzi PhD Student Email: alessandro.fedrizzi@exp.univie.ac.at http://www.quantum.univie.ac.at/

Alessandro Fedrizzi studied technical physics at the University of Technology Vienna, with the focus on ion physics and quantum optics. Returning from a one year stay at the 'Universidad Autonoma de Madrid' in Spain, he joined Prof. Zeilinger's group for his diploma thesis about compact entangled photon sources for quantum cryptography. After his graduation he stayed with the project as a PhD student and is now working on the integration of entanglement based cryptography systems into modern optical fiber networks.