I am an experimental quantum physicist trying to answer fundamental questions that are hard to grasp, interesting to investigate and challenging to implement. In other words, I am having fun in the lab understanding the world a tiny bit better and I hope it will be useful one day…
As of 2019, I started my own research group working on experimental quantum optics at the Laboratory of Photonics of the Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
If you are also interested in the weird world of quantum physics and you are curious to work on fundamental questions as well as latest quantum technological implementations, please contact me (robertfickler@web.de) for possible collaborations or open positions.
More details about my research interests can be found here.
Professional Experience
starting Jan 2019
Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
May 2018 – Dec 2018
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Vienna, Austria
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow with the group of Marcus Huber
May 2016 – Apr 2018
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow with the groups of Bob Boyd & Ebrahim Karimi
May 2015 – Apr 2016
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Postdoctoral Fellow with the groups of Bob Boyd & Ebrahim Karimi
Oct 2014 – Apr 2015
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Vienna, Austria
Postdoctoral Fellow with the group of Anton Zeilinger
Oct 2009 – Sept. 2014
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Graduate research assistant (Prea Doc) with the group of Anton Zeilinger
CoQuS-Student (Vienna Doctoral Program for Complex Quantum Systems)
Mar 2012 – May 2012
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Graduate research exchange with the group of Andrew White
May 2008 – Apr 2009
University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Graduate research assistant (Masters) with the group of Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
Sept 1996 – Aug 1999
Allgäuer Überlandwerk (AÜW), Kempten, Germany
Apprenticeship as an electronics engineer
Education
Sept 2014 – PhD in Physics
University of Vienna / IQOQI Vienna, Vienna, Austria
thesis: Entanglement of Complex Structures of Photons
supervisor: Anton Zeilinger
May 2009 – Masters in Physics (Diplom)
University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
thesis: Cold single ions for the implantation in solid state devices with nanometre resolution
supervisor: Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
Aug 2008 – Bachelor in Philosophy
University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
thesis: The term realism in quantum physics
supervisor: Jörg Wernecke
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