- Email: iqc-dtr@uwaterloo.ca
- Office: QNC 4129
- Office Phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 32870
- http://lutkenhausgroup.wordpress.com/
- Admin Support: Michele Roche
- Contact Jeannie Bairos for all Director's office business
All Executive Director related emails should be sent to:
iqc-dtr@uwaterloo.ca
All office related emails should be sent to:
lutkenhaus.office@uwaterloo.ca
All confidential emails should be sent to:
nlutkenhaus@uwaterloo.ca
Norbert Lütkenhaus studied at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen) and the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich, from which he graduated with a thesis in general relativity.
He then changed the field to study quantum optics and quantum cryptography under the supervision of Stephen M. Barnett at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK.
In 1996 he obtained his PhD and then completed postdoctoral positions at Innsbruck (Peter Zoller and Ignacio Cirac) and the Helsinki Institute of Physics (Kalle-Antti Suominen).
He worked for MagiQ Technologies (New York) to initiate the project of commercial realisation of quantum key distribution.
Returning to academia in 2001, he built up and lead an Emmy-Noether Research Group at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, during which time he did his habiliation (2004).
Previously, Lütkenhaus served as the IQC Graduate Program Director. Currently, he is the Executive Director at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and also a Professor at IQC and in the physics and astronomy department at the University of Waterloo. Lütkenhaus runs the Optical Quantum Communication Theory Group.
Current projects and research expertise
- The theory of practical quantum key distribution systems
- Methods and tools for entanglement verification
- Linear optic quantum logic operation and measurement implementation
- Quantum state detection and estimation theory
Degrees
- Habilitation, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2003
- PhD in Physics, University of Strathclyde, 1996
- Masters, Diplom Physik, LMU München, 1993
Major positions
| Title | Location | When |
|---|---|---|
| Executive Director | Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo | 2022-present |
| Professor | Institute for Quantum Computing and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo | 2011-present |
| Associate Professor | Institute for Quantum Computing and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo | 2006-2011 |
|
Leader of Independent Emmy-Noether Research |
Institute for Theoretical Physics and Max-Planck Research Group, Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics | 2001-2005 |
| Project Leader | MagiQ Technologies Inc. | 2000-2001 |
| Senior Scientist (Research Fellow) | Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland | 1997-2000 |