Časlav Brukner (born July 9, 1967 in

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) is a Serbian-Austrian quantum physicist and university professor.

Biography

Brukner studied physics at the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me ...

from 1987 to 1991, and subsequently completed a degree in physics at the

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in 1995. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Experimental Physics at the

University of Innsbruck The University of Innsbruck (; ) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. It is the largest education facility in the Austrian States of Austria, ...

. In 1999 he received his doctorate in

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at the

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under the supervision of

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. In 2003, he completed his

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in the field of quantum physics at the

, where he was an

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until 2014. He has had several research experiences abroad: in 2004 at

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, and from 2005 to 2008 as professor at the

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. Since 2008 he has been guest professor at the

. Between July 2013 and June 2019 he has been Director of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) Vienna at the

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and since February 2014 he has the Chair of Quantum Information Theory and Fundamentals of Quantum Physics in the group Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information at the University of Vienna. His research interests are in

quantum information theory Quantum information is the information of the state of a quantum system. It is the basic entity of study in quantum information theory, and can be manipulated using quantum information processing techniques. Quantum information refers to both t ...

quantum non-locality In theoretical physics, quantum nonlocality refers to the phenomenon by which the measurement statistics of a multipartite quantum system do not allow an interpretation with local realism. Quantum nonlocality has been experimentally verified unde ...

and theoretical

quantum foundations Quantum foundations is a discipline of science that seeks to understand the most counter-intuitive aspects of quantum theory, reformulate it and even propose new generalizations thereof. Contrary to other physical theories, such as general relat ...

, as well as causality in

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and

. In 2021, he was elected a member of Serbian Academy of Science and Art (SANU)."Izabrano 30 novih članova SANU"
Danas.rs, 4.11.2021.

References

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