Norbert Lütkenhaus studied at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen) and the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich, from which he graduated with a thesis in general relativity.

He then changed the field to study quantum optics and quantum cryptography under the supervision of Stephen M. Barnett at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK.

In 1996 he obtained his PhD after postdoctoral positions in Innsbruck (Peter Zoller and Ignacio Cirac) and the Helsinki Institute of Physics (Kalle-Antti Suominen).

He worked for MagiQ Technologies (New York) to initiate the project of commercial realisation of quantum key distribution.

Returning to academia in 2001, he built up and lead an Emmy-Noether Research Group at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, during which time he did his habiliation (2004).

Currently he is a Professor at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and in the Physics department at the University of Waterloo and runs the Optical Quantum Communication Theory Group.

All office related emails should be sent to:
lutkenhaus.office@uwaterloo.ca

All confidential emails should be sent to:
nlutkenhaus@uwaterloo.ca

Current Projects:

• The theory of practical quantum key distribution systems
• Methods and tools for entanglement verification
• Linear optic quantum logic operation and measurement implementation
• Quantum state detection and estimation theory

Degrees

• Habilitation, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2003
• PhD in Physics, University of Strathclyde, 1996
• Masters, Diplom Physik, LMU München, 1993

Major positions