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Personal Information

Name
Johannes Kofler
Year of birth
1980
Citizenship
Austrian
Family Status
Two sons with Carolin Hahn

Professional History

Since 10/2018
University Assistant (Group of Sepp Hochreiter)
Institute for Machine Learning & LIT AI Lab, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Parental leaves: 08–09/2020, 10/2022–09/2023
05/2017 – 09/2018
Senior Researcher
AKKT Forschungsgesellschaft, Cooperation Partner of Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
11/2011 – 04/2017
Postdoctoral Researcher (Group of Ignacio Cirac)
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany
08/2008 – 10/2011
Postdoctoral Researcher (Group of Anton Zeilinger, 2022 Nobel Laureate in Physics)
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
01/2005 – 07/2008
Research Assistant / PhD Student (Group of Časlav Brukner) & DOC Fellow
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna & Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
03/2004 – 06/2004
Scientific Co-worker (Groups of Eckhard Krotscheck & Dieter Bäuerle)
Institute for Theoretical Physics & Institute for Applied Physics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Education

03/2005 – 10/2008
Doctoral studies of Natural Sciences (University of Vienna, Austria)
Dissertation: “Quantum violation of macroscopic realism and the transition to classical physics”
10/1999 – 11/2004
Diploma studies of Technical Physics (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Diploma thesis: “Focusing of light in axially symmetric systems within the wave optics approximation”
07/1998 – 02/1999
Obligatory military service (Villach and Klagenfurt, Austria)
09/1990 – 06/1998
Grammar school (Linz and Klagenfurt, Austria)
Matura diploma (Bundesrealgymnasium Viktring/Klagenfurt, Austria)