Awards

Academic Awards and Prizes

2025
Kepler Award in Science Communications (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) [team award for “BruQner – The Sound of Entanglement”]

2019
Sohmen Fellowship (Sohmen Far East Foundation) [supporting a science-industry delegation trip to China]

2016
Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria) [team award for Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 250401 (2015)]

2009
Promotio sub auspiciis Praesidentis rei publicae (Federal President of Austria) [for academic achievements]

2009
Appreciation Award (Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research) [for academic achievements]

2009
Erwin Wenzl Prize (St. Magdalena Education Center, Linz, Austria) [for the PhD Thesis]

2009
Loschmidt Prize (Austrian Chemical Physical Society) [for the PhD Thesis]

2008
Doc.Award (University of Vienna & City of Vienna, Austria) [for the PhD Thesis]

2007
DOC Fellowship (Austrian Academy of Sciences) [supporting PhD research]

2004
Wilhelm Macke Prize (Wilhelm Macke Scholarship Foundation, Linz, Austria) [for the diploma thesis]

2003
Merit scholarship (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) [for study achievements]

2002
Merit scholarship (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) [for study achievements]

2001
Merit scholarship (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) [for study achievements]

Research Grants

2026
“Quantum-Enhanced Microscopy”, Quantum Science Austria (quantA), Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
PIs: Philipp Schindler, Thomas Juffmann, Iva Brezinova, Philipp Haslinger, Johannes Kofler
Affiliated Members: Richard Küng, Dennis Rätzel

2026
“Machine Learning for Quantum Experiments”, Quantum Science Austria (quantA), Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
PIs: Johannes Kofler, Jörg Schmiedmayer
Affiliated Member: Richard Küng

2024
“Quantum-Computer-Enhanced Microscopy”, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
PIs: Thomas Juffmann, Iva Brezinova, Philipp Haslinger, Johannes Kofler, Richard Küng, Philipp Schindler, Dennis Rätzel

2024
“Multi State Logic in Cluster State Quantum Computing”, Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
PIs: Martin Ringbauer, Richard Küng, Wolfgang Dür, Marcus Huber
Co-PIs: Johannes Kofler, Nicolai Friis, Paul Erker

2024
“Quantum-Computer-Enhanced Imaging”, Quantum Science Austria (quantA), Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
PIs: Thomas Juffmann, Iva Brezinova, Philipp Haslinger, Richard Küng, Philipp Schindler
Affiliated Members: Johannes Kofler, Mario Krenn