====== Gerd Leuchs ======


===== Biography =====

  * 1970-1975     Study of Physics and Mathematics, Universität Köln  
  * 1975-1978     thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München  
  * 1978-1983     Research Associate, Universität München  
  * 1979-1980     Visiting Fellow at JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder  
  * 1980-1981     Feodor-Lynen-Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation  
  * 1983-1985     Heisenberg-Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at JILA an NIST Boulder, Colorado 
  * 1985-1989     Group leader (C3) at Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching 
  * 1986-1994     Faculty member (PD), Universität München  
  * 1990-1994     Technical Director of Nanomach AG, Buchs, Switzerland  
  * 1996-2005     Member  of  the  board  of  the  Quantum  Electronics  and  Optics  Division  of  the  European Physical Society  
  * 1998-2000     Chairman  of  the  division  'quantum  optics'  of  the  Deutsche  Physikalsche  Gesellschaft  
  * 2000-2008     Elected referee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  * since 1994    Professor of Physics, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg  
  * 2003-2008     Director  of  the  Max  Planck  Research  Group  for  Optics,  Information  and  Photonics, Erlangen 
  * since 2009    Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen  


===== Wigner-specific research =====
(selection)

  * Dagmar Bruss and [[Gerd Leuchs]], [[https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Quantum+Information%3A+From+Foundations+to+Quantum+Technology+Applications%2C+2+Volume+Set%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9783527805792|Quantum Information: From Foundations to Quantum Technology Applications]], (Wiley, 2019)
  * Dmitry V. Strekalov and [[Gerd Leuchs]], [[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-98402-5_3|Nonlinear Interactions and Non-classical Light]], Quant. Photon., 51 (2019)
  * Christian R Müller, Christian Peuntinger, Thomas Dirmeier, Imran Khan, Ulrich Vogl, Ch Marquardt, [[Gerd Leuchs]], Luis L Sánchez-Soto, Yong Siah Teo, Zdenek Hradil, Jaroslav Řeháček, [[https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.070801|Evading Vacuum Noise: Wigner Projections or Husimi Samples?]], Phys. Rev. Lett. **117**, 070801 (2016)

===== Affiliation(s) =====

  * Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany
  * Professor of Physics, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany



===== Additional information =====

  * [[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Leuchs|German Wikipedia Entry]]
  * [[http://www.mpl.mpg.de/de/leuchs.html|Group Website]]