Anton Zeiliger Professor of Physics, Head of the Group Email: zeilinger-office@ap.univie.ac.at http://www.quantum.univie.ac.at/

Anton Zeilinger's work on the foundations of quantum physics has led both to concepts for a novel quantum information technology and to a new understanding of fundamental issues in the interpretation of quantum mechanics. His group's achievements include quantum teleportation and entangled-state quantum cryptography; most recently, his group provided the first experimental realization of a one-way quantum computer, a completely novel concept which changes our notions of computation. Anton Zeilinger also explores the quantum classical boundary; his group holds the world record for the largest molecules for which quantum interference has been seen. Among his distinctions are the German Order Pour le Mérite, and most recently, the Klopsteg Memorial Award of the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Lorenz-Oken-Medal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte and the King Faisal International Prize in Science 2005. He has held teaching positions and visiting professorships at many institutions world-wide, including MIT, the University of Melbourne, the T echnical University Munich, Oxford University and the Collége de France and is currently Director of the Institute of Experimental Physics at the University of Vienna and of the Vienna Department of the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.