Matthias Jakob Post doctoral researcher Email: matthias.jakob@arcs.ac.at

Matthias Jakob received his Diploma (1995) and PhD (1999) degrees in theoretical physics at the Department of Quantum Physics of Wolfgang Schleich, University of Ulm, Germany, working in the field of quantum optics and foundations of quantum mechanics. His research included quantum information theory, quantum measurement theory, quantum optics, and foundations of quantum mechanics, at the Quantum Optics Department of Janos Bergou and Mark Hillery, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York USA, (1997-2002); theory of open quantum systems, entropy functionals, time reversal, and control theory, at the Quantum Optics Department of Stig Stenholm, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, (2002-2004), this research was involved in the COCOMO-project of the 5th framework of the EU; quantification of entanglement and the role of quantum correlations in secure quantum key distribution at the Quantum Information Theory Group of Norbert Lütkenhaus, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (04/2004-10/2004). Since October 2004 he is at ARCS as a Hertha-Firnberg fellow continuing to work on quantum correlations and its role in secure quantum key distribution, quantum information theory, and quantum cryptography.