ACADEMIC STAFF:

Professor Radim Filip

Assist. Prof. Michal Kolář (stochastic and quantum thermodynamics, 2014- )    

SENIOR RESEARCHERS:

Ondřej Černotík (superconducting circuits, quantum optomechanics, 2019- ) 
Kimin Park (quantum optics, superconducting circuits, 2016- )
Andrey Rakhubovsky (quantum optomechanics, 2013- )
Darren Moore (quantum optomechanics, 2018- ) 

POSTDOCS:

Luca Innocenti (quantum optics, 2020- )
Anil Kumar (quantum optomechanics, 2019- )
Alisa Manukhova (atomic optics, 2018- )  
Iivari Peitikanen (superconducting circuits, 2019- )
Atirach Ritboon (trapped ions, 2018- )
Jitendra Verma (atomic and solid-state optics, 2020- )

PHD STUDENTS:

Ivan Derkach: Continuous variable quantum key distribution  
Mariia Gumberidze: Optical tests of quantum thermodynamics
Josef Hloušek: Detection of number of photons and their applications in quantum technology
Olena Kovalenko: Multiplexed optical quantum communication
Lukáš Lachman:Quantum non-Gaussian light
Petr Obšil: Quantum physics of trapped ions
Luca Ornigotti: Stochastic nonlinear dynamics of levitating particles
Lukáš Podhora: Quantum interaction of light with atoms and mechanical oscillators
Uljana Rakhubovsky: Autonomous quantum coherence and nonclassicality in trapped ions

ALUMNI:

Jan Bílek (PhD student, 2016, DTU Lyngby, Denmark, now UP Olomouc)
Miroslav Gavenda (master, PhD student and postdoc 2003-2016, now Varroc Lighting Systems, Czech Republic)
Giacomo Guarnieri (postdoc 2017-2018, now Trinity College Dublin)
Jiří Herec (postdoc 2005-2006, Czech Metrology Institute, Brno)
Vojtěch Kupčík  (bachelor and master student 2012-2014, now Automotive Lighting, Czech Republic)
Petr Klapka (bachelor student 2012-2014, now HELLA, Czech Republic)
Mikolaj Lasota (postdoc 2015-2016, now University of Torun, Poland)
Petr Marek (quantum optics, 2008-2019, now UP Olomouc)
László Ruppert (postdoc 2014-2018, now UP Olomouc)
Lukáš Slodička (postdoc, 2014-2018, now UP Olomouc)
Ladislav Mišta (postdoc 2006-2009, now UP Olomouc)
Vladyslav Usenko (quantum communication, 2016-2019, now UP Olomouc)  
Petr Zapletal (bachelor and master student 2014-2016, now University of Cambridge, UK)

DEPARTMENT COLLABORATION:

Jaromír Fiurášek (quantum information theory)
Miroslav Ježek, Michal Mičuda, Ivo Straka (quantum optics experiments) see Quantum Optics Lab Olomouc
Petr Marek (quantum optics and metrology)  
László Ruppert (quantum estimation theory)
Lukáš Slodička (atomic and trapped ion experiments) see Quantum Optics Lab Olomouc
Vladyslav Usenko (quantum communication)

DOMESTIC COLLABORATION:

Pavel Cejnar, Pavel Stránský (many-body physics, Charles University, Prague)

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION:

Ulrik L. Andersen (DTU Lyngby, Copenhagen)
Markus Aspelmeyer, Nikolai Kiesel (University of Vienna)
Akira Furusawa (University of Tokio)
Julien Laurat, Nicolas Treps (Kastler Brossel Laboratory, Sorbonne University Paris)
Christoph Marquardt, Maria Chekhova, Gerd Leuchs (Max-Planck Institute for Science of Light, Erlangen) 
Ana Predojevic (Stockholm University)
Fabio Sciarrino (Sapienza University of Roma)
Gregor Weihs (University of Insbruck)

RESEARCH GRANTS:

2021-2023: EU H2020 WIDESPREAD, Twinning in non-Gaussian Quantum Physics for Quantum Technology (PI: R. Filip)

2021-2025: Czech Science Foundation 21-13265X, EXPRO Centre of Excellence on Quantum non-Gaussian Coherence (PI: R. Filip)

2020-2022: EU H2020 QuantERA ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum Technologies (731473) and Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth, Czech Republic (8C20002), Short-range optical quantum connections (ShoQC), (PI: R. Filip)

2020-2022: EU H2020 QuantERA ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum Technologies (731473) and Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth, Czech Republic (8C20002), Photon-atom cooperative effects at interfaces (PACE-IN), (team member, PI: L. Slodička)

2020-2022: Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport LTAUSA19099, Highly nonlinear operations with superconducting quantum oscillators (PI: R. Filip)

2020-2022: Czech Science Foundation 20-16577S, Hybrid quantum physics at a low temperatures (PI: R. Filip) 

2019-2022: Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_026/0008460,  Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Metrology with Cold Quantum Objects and Fibre Networks (co-PI: R. Filip)
 
2019-2021: Czech Science Foundation 19-19189S, Photonic simulators of quantum thermodynamical systems (team member, PI: J. Fiurášek)

2019-2021: Czech Science Foundation 19-14988S, Coherently programmable source of nonclasical light (team member, PI: L. Slodička)

2019-2021: Czech Science Foundation 19-17765S, Multidimensional nonlinear optomechanics of levitating nanosystems, (co-PI: R. Filip)

2018-2020: Czech Science Foundation 18-21285S, Efficient and feasible nonlineal squeezed light, (team member, PI: P. Marek)

2018-2021: EU H2020 QuantERA ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum Technologies (731473) and Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth, Czech Republic (8C18002), Hyper-entanglement from ultra-bright photon pair sources, (team member, co-PI: M. Ježek)

2018-2021: EU H2020 QuantERA ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum Technologies (731473) and Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth, Czech Republic (8C18003), Theory-blind Quantum Control (TheBlinQC), (PI: R. Filip)

2017-2019: Czech Science Foundation 17-26143S, Advanced detectors of statistics and polarization of ultra weak light signals, (team member, PI: M. Ježek)

2016-2018: Czech Science Foundation 16-17314S, Complex multiqubit optical quantum gates, (team member, PI: J. Fiurášek)

2014-2018: Czech Science Foundation, Center of Excellence for Classical and Quantum Interactions in Nanoworld, (co-PI: R. Filip)

2013-2015: FP7 ICT programme of EU No. 308803, Bright squeezed vacuum and its applications (PI: R. Filip)

2013-2014: Czech-Japan project of Czech Ministry of Education No. LH13248, Detection of quantum non-Gaussian features of light (team member, PI: P. Marek)

2013-2015: Czech-Germany project, Czech Science Foundation 13-27533J, Free-space optical quantum communication with continuous variables (team member, PI: V. Usenko)

2013-2015: Czech Science Foundation GA13-20319S, Quantum optical information processing driven by weak quantum measurements (team member, PI: J. Fiurášek)

2012-2014: Czech Science Foundation 205/12/0694, Complex quantum correlations and its applications (team member, PI: L. Mišta)

2012-2014: Czech Sceince Foundation 205/12/0577, Reliable highly nonlinear optical quantum information processing (PI: R. Filip)

2010-2011: Czech-Japan project, Czech Ministry of Education ME10156, Measurement induced quantum information processing with continuous variables    (PI: R. Filip)

2008-2010: Czech Science Foundation 202/08/0224, Electro-optical control of quantum noise of light (PI: R. Filip)

2007-2010: Czech-Germany project, Czech Science Foundation and DFG 202/07/J040, Quantum communication with continuous variables through  noisy channels (PI: R. Filip)

2003-2006: Post-Doc project, Czech Science Foundation P202/03/D239, Reduction of decoherence in quantum communication and information processing   (PI: R. Filip)