Peter Zoller

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Peter Zoller graduated with a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Innsbruck in 1977 (advisor F. Ehlotzky). In 1978 he received a Max Kade Fellowship to join the group of Peter Lambropoulos, University of Southern California. Returning to Innsbruck, he held an assistant position at the Institute for Theoretical Physics and spent part of 1980 as postdoc in the group of Dan Walls in New Zealand. In 1981 he applied for the Habilitation with a tenured position as Dozent. He spent the academic years 1981 and 1988 as a JILA Fellow at the University of Colorado, and in 1986 he was a guest professor at the University Paris – Sud, Orsay, France. End of 1990, Zoller was appointed as JILA Fellow and tenured full professor at the University of Colorado, and as Co-Director with C. Greene of the NSF Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics. End of 1994 he was appointed as chair professor for theoretical quantum optics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Innsbruck. Since 2003 Zoller also held the position of Scientific Director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). In 2004 Zoller was Loeb Lecturer at Harvard and held the Yan Jici Chair Professorship at the University of Science and Technology, Hefei, China. In 2005 he was Lorentz-Professor in Leiden, and in 2008 Moore Distinguished Scholar at Caltech. Since 2014 he is external member of the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, where he spent part of 2012 as Distinguished Fellow. Since 1995, Zoller has been Adjoint Fellow at JILA, University of Colorado. In October 2020, Zoller became Emeritus Chair Professor, and at present holds the position of a Professor for Theoretical Physics at the University of Innsbruck. Peter Zoller is married with three children.