Professor and University Research Chair
- 2020 - Member of the Senate, University of Waterloo
- 2021 - Member of the Advisory Board, Banff International Research Station (BIRS)
- 2021 - 2023 Member of the Board of Governors, University of Waterloo
- 2014 - 2021 University Research Chair
- 2014 - 2018: Chair of the International Society for Relativistic Quantum Information (ISRQI)
- 2004 - 2014: Canada Research Chair for the Physics of Information
- Based in the Department of Applied Mathematics at UW
- Cross-appointed to the Department of Physics at UW
- Associate member of the Institute for Quantum Computing at UW
- Founding member of the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics
- Member of the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute
- Member of the Mathematics of Data Science and Machine Learning Research Group
- Affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute
- Member of the Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute
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- Current workload status: high
CV:
- Born: in the Universität Heidelberg (founded 1386)
- Education: Universities of Heidelberg, Karlsruhe and Munich. State and federal scholarships from Land Baden-Wuerttemberg (LGFG) and Studienstiftung.
- Student Life: worked on weekends, used the spring breaks (which lasted from mid-February to mid-April) for 2-months long backpacking trips in South America, Africa and Asia.
- Postdoc: DAMTP, Cambridge (and stipendiary College Research Fellow) and IFT, University of Florida
Favorite Einstein quote: here