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Career history:

University of St. Andrews St. Andrews, UK

Since 09/03: Lecturer in Photonics. Lecturing in Photonics. Research on generation of photon pairs in fibers, quantum gates and continuous variable quantum information processing. Lectures about various topics in physics.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA

01/02-08/03: Postdoctoral associate in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Prof. J. H. Shapiro and Dr. N. C. Wong. Research focuses on efficient generation of EPR-correlated photon pairs using periodically poled nonlinear crystals (PPLN) as well as broadband second harmonic generation in KTP crystals.

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Erlangen, Germany

01/02: Completion of PhD degree (Grade A). Thesis: QND Measurement of the photon number. Oral exams on: Bose-Einstein condensation, theory of the laser, and system design in optical communications.

12/96-01/02: PhD studies at the Chair for Optics, University of Erlangen, Germany, My PhD project was a QND (quantum nondemolition) measurement of the photon number of solitons in optical fibers. The importance of QND experiments arises from repeated precise quantum mechanical measurements and applications in quantum information processing. I theoretically assessed a novel QND approach and implemented it experimentally. This experiment is the first clear demonstration of a QND experiment in optical fibers.

Advisors: Prof. Dr. G. Leuchs and Dr. A. Sizmann

Additional research projects:

1) Construction of femtosecond Erbium-Glass laser

Achieved 360-fs pulses, 7 times shorter than previously reported.

2) Ti: Sapphire laser (Adelaide University, Australia).

3) Constructed a grating-based fs-pulse shaping device

4) Polarization-mode dispersion and solitons in commercial fiber link.

5) Nonlinear fiber interferometer for squeezing

Built the first nonlinear Sagnac interferometer for amplitude-quantum noise suppression. This device enabled the field of continuous variable quantum information with fibers.

6) Squeezing by spectral filtering of fiber-optical pulses

7) EPR-soliton pair production from a nonlinear interferometer

8) Higher Order moments of the photon-number distribution

Intensity distribution of light with nonclassical noise was characterized.

State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY, USA

10/96: Master of Arts in physics. Master thesis: A Neutral Atom Source for Trapping Experiments, Prof. G. Sprouse and Prof. L. Orozco

8/95-10/96: Foreign graduate studies and lab project. For the trapping of the radioactive element Francium, constructed an efficient neutralization and injection mechanism for ions into a magneto-optical trap. The concentration of successfully injected neutral atoms was measured by fluorescence spectroscopy.

Advisors: Prof. G. Sprouse and Prof. L. Orozco.

University of Würzburg Würzburg, Germany

10/94-8/95: Graduate studies at the University of Würzburg

University of Wuppertal Wuppertal, Germany

8/94: Pre-diploma (Grade A), Wuppertal

10/92-8/94: Undergraduate studies at the University of Wuppertal.

6/91: Abitur, Wuppertal, Germany (‘A’ level secondary school final examination)

Awards/

Stipends: IREX research exchange stipend at Adelaide University and Australian National University at Canberra, Australia (10/00-11/00).

Stipend of The Research Foundation of State University of New York (6/96-9/96).

Teaching

Experience prior to Lectureship:

9/93-10/93: University of Wuppertal Wuppertal, Germany Teaching assistantship in introductory mathematics.

12/96-01/02: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Erlangen, Germany

Supervision of seven diploma students in their diploma thesis research. All students completed (Grade A).

Teaching assistantship in Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Electricity and Magnetism, Atomic Physics and Optics.

Advised student for an advanced seminar talk on cold atoms.

Renewed three experiments (for 7 students each) in a physics lab.

Languages: German: native, English: fluent, Russian: basic, Latinum, Graecum.

Personal Information:

Date and Place of Birth: 07/23/1971 in Wuppertal, Germany

Marital Status: Married to Dr. Natalia Korolkova

Parents: Dr. Fritz König, Gretelies König, two sisters

Nationality: German

St. Andrews, March 5, 2004

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