The 2018 Willis E. Lamb Award For pioneering contributions to quantum computing, quantum communication and many-body physics.

Awarded January 11, 2018, at the 48th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics.

Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck

For pioneering contributions to quantum computing, quantum communication and many-body physics.

Peter Zoller is Professor at the University of Innsbruck and research director at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austria Academy of Sciences. He works on quantum optics and quantum information and is best known for his pioneering research on quantum computing and quantum communication and for bridging quantum optics and solid state physics. As a theoretician, Zoller has written major works on the interaction of laser light and atoms. His ideas and concepts attract plenty of interest within the scientific community and his works are highly cited. Peter Zoller has received numerous awards for his achievements including the Wolf Prize, Benjamin Franklin Medal and the Max Planck Medal.

Bio provided by Peter Zoller, 2020.