Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

Scientific Members and Directors

Managing Director

Prof. Dr. Ferenc Krausz

Director of the Group Attosecond Physics
Executive Director

Current Directors

Prof. Dr. Immanuel Bloch

Director of the Group Quantum Many Body Systems

Prof. Dr. J. Ignacio Cirac

Director of the Group Theory

Prof. Dr. Ferenc Krausz

Director of the Group Attosecond Physics
Executive Director

Emeritus Directors

Prof. Dr. Theodor W. Hänsch

Director of the Emeritus Group Laser Spectroscopy

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rempe

Director of the Emeritus Group Quantum Dynamics

Head of the Institute

Prof. Dr. Ferenc Krausz

Director of the Group Attosecond Physics
Executive Director

Nina Kilgus

Administrative Director

Dr. Eileen Welz

Administrative Director

W2 Research Group Leaders

Prof. Dr. Monika Aidelsburger

Engineered Quantum Systems

Dr. Dr. Mari Carmen Bañuls

Tensor Network Algorithms and Applications

Research Group Leaders

Dr Jad C. Halimeh

Dynamical Quantum Matter Theory

Dr. Xinyu Luo

Ultracold lithium-rubidium molecules

Dr. Philipp Preiss

Atomic Quantum Matter

Dr Rahul Trivedi

Theory of Open Systems

Prof. Dr. Thomas Udem

Foundations of Quantum Physics

Dr. Johannes Zeiher

Quantum Matter Interfaces

External Scientific Members

Prof. Dr. Rainer Blatt

Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI)
Austrian Academy of Sciences
_{(Picture: IQOQI / M.R. Knabl)}

Prof. Dr. Raphael Levine

Institute of Chemistry
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. Dr. Marlan O. Scully

Prof. Dr. Marlan O. Scully

Department of Physics and Astronomy
Texas A&M University

Prof. Dr. Jelena Vučković

Stanford University

Prof. Dr. Peter Zoller

Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI)
Austrian Academy of Sciences
_{(Picture: C. Lackner)}

Former Directors

Prof. Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kompa

Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Oprics

Prof. Herbert Walther

Dr. Siegbert Witkowski

Staff

Currently, there almost 400 people employed at the MPQ, of which 250 are researchers.

External Committees

General Advisory Board
Scientific Advisory Board