About Anton Zeilinger
Anton Zeilinger attended the Humanistic High School in Vienna and studied physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1971. After working as a research assistant for Helmut Rauch at the Vienna Atomic Institute, several stays abroad and his habilitation at the Vienna University of Technology in 1979, he first became an associate university professor and then a full university professor of experimental physics; first at the University of Innsbruck in 1990 and from 1999 at the University of Vienna. Anton Zeilinger was the founding director of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) Vienna of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and President of the ÖAW from 2013-2022.
His research focuses on the fundamentals of quantum physics. He was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with entangled photons.
