Stefanie Barz

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Since 2025: Head of Institute, Institute for Quantum Information and Technology, University of Stuttgart
Since 2022: Director, Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, IQST
Since 2017: Professor of Physics (W3), Institute for Functional Matter and Quantum
Technologies - Barz Group, University of Stuttgart
2015 - 2017: Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow (Individual fellowship “seQureNet”),
Ultrafast quantum optics and optical metrology group, Department of Physics,
University of Oxford, UK
2014 - 2015: Marie Curie fellow in the Initial Training Network “PICQUE”, Ultrafast
quantum optics and optical metrology group, Department of Physics,
University of Oxford, UK
2013 - 2014: Postdoctoral researcher, Quantum information sciences and quantum
computation group, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria
2009 - 2012: PhD in physics, Quantum Information and Foundations of Physics
group, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria

• 2025 Honorary professorship, TU Wien
• 2022 Award for best elective physics lecture, University of Stuttgart
• 2015 Millard and Lee Alexander Fellowship, Christ Church, Oxford
• 2015 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, European Commission
• 2014 Doc.Award 2013, University of Vienna & City of Vienna
• 2014 Loschmidt Prize 2013, Austrian Chemical-Physical Society
• 2013 Dr. Maria Schaumayer Prize
• 2013 Finalist: German dissertation award (Deutscher Studienpreis), Koerber Foundation
• 2013 Finalist: PhD thesis award, American Physical Society (APS)
• 2013 Finalist: PhD thesis award, German Physical Society (DPG)
• 2012 Falling Walls Scholarship
• 2011 Laudimaxima Award 2010/2011
• 2010 Fellow of the career development program of the University of Vienna
• 2010 Best poster prize at the International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computation, Brisbane, Australia
• 2004 Erasmus scholarship of the European Union
• 2002 Award from the German Physical Society for the school achievements in physics (on the school's suggestion)

Since 2025: Elected Member of the Quantum Community Network of the Quantum Flagship: Representation of Germany
Since 2023: Member of the Advisory Board: QuantumBW
Since 2022: Member of the Executive board: CZS Center QPhoton
Since 2018: Member of the Executive board: Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology
2020: Member of the Expert panel of the German Government on Quantum Computing
2019-2025 Member of the Board of trustees: Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart
2019-2025: Member of the Advisory Board: QuantERA network

PhD thesis

Photonic quantum computing
Supervisor: Anton Zeilinger
University of Vienna (2012)

Diploma thesis

Eine Quelle polarisationsverschränkter Photonenpaare für das physikalische Praktikum für Fortgeschrittene (A source of polarization-entangled photon pairs)
Supervisor: Arno Rauschenbeutel
Mainz University (2008)