Časlav Brukner (born July 9, 1967 in

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) is a Serbian-Austrian

quantum physicist Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, qua ...

and university professor.

Biography

Brukner had studied physics at the

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from 1987 - 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 (german: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; la, Universitas Leopoldino Franciscea) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. ...

. In 1999 he received his doctorate in quantum physics at the

Vienna University of Technology TU Wien (TUW; german: Technische Universität Wien; still known in English as the Vienna University of Technology from 1975–2014) is one of the major universities in Vienna, Austria. The university finds high international and domestic recogn ...

. In 2003, he completed his habilitation in the field of quantum physics at the

, where he was an associate professor until 2014. He has had several research experiences abroad: in 2004 at Imperial College in

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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 Austrian Academy of Sciences 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

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, quantum non-locality and theoretical

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, as well as causality in gravitation and quantum physics. 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.

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