PTB Braunschweig | Leibniz Universität Hannover | |
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Name: | Prof. Dr. Piet O.Schmidt | |
Address: | Bundesallee 100 38116 Braunschweig | Welfengarten 1 30167 Hannover |
Room: | Laue/506 | D125 |
Tel.: | +49 531 592 4700 | +49 511 762 17646 |
Fax: | +49 531 592 69 4700 | |
E-Mail: | piet.schmidt@quantummetrology.de |
Scientific interests
Scientific CV
Scientific Education | |
10/1991 – 08/1994 | undergraduate studies in physics at the University of Konstanz, Germany |
09/1994 – 08/1995 | graduate studies at the Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, USA |
12.08.1995 | Master of Science in Physics at the Portland State University Thesis title: "Origins of Effective Charge of Multivalent Ions at a Membrane/Water Interface and Distribution of 2,3,4,5--Tetrachlorophenol in a Membrane Model System" |
10/1995 – 04/1998 | graduate studies at the University of Konstanz, Diploma thesis "Light Masks in Atom Lithography" in the group of Prof. J. Mlynek |
08/1998 – 12/2000 | PhD studies at the University of Konstanz in the group of Prof. J. Mlynek & Prof. T. Pfau |
01/2001 – 03/2003 | project moved with Prof. T. Pfau to University of Stuttgart, Germany thesis title: "Scattering Properties of Ultra-cold Chromium Atoms" |
Scientific Career | |
04/2004 – 02/2005 | PostDoc at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, USA |
03/2005 – 12/2008 | University assistant at University of Innsbruck in the group of Prof. R. Blatt |
09/2006 – 12/2008 | Junior research group leader: "Direct Frequency Comb Spectroscopy using Quantum Logic" |
since 01/2009 | W3 Professor at the University of Hannover and director of the QUEST Institute for Experimental Quantum Metrology at the PTB in Braunschweig |
Stipends, Awards, Memberships, Activities | |
08/1999 – 04/2002 | PhD stipend from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
07/2004 | Best thesis award from the "Freunde der Universität Stuttgart" association |
11/2003 – 02/2005 | Feodor-Lynen research fellowship of the Alexander v. Humboldt Foundation |
06/2006 | START research award of the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Arts |
04/2010 | European Time and Frequency Forum (EFTF) Young Scientist Award 2010 |
11/2020 | Finalist Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2020 |
since 10/2021 | Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) |
since 01/2022 | ERC Advanced Grant “FunClocks” |
since 07/2016 | Speaker of the CRC 1227 DQ-mat |
since 2017 | Member of the board of QUEST Leibniz Forschungsschule (QUEST-LFS) |
since 2017 | Member of the board of Hannover Institute of Technology (HITec) |
2017 – 2020 | Scientific coordinator of the BMBF project “opticlock” |
2018 – 2021 | Member of the programme committee “Quantum systems” of the BMBF |
since 2019 | Co-Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence “QuantumFrontiers” |
2020 | Member of the expert council on quantum computing of the federal government of Germany |
Since 2020 | Member of the Board of the European Group on Atomic Systems (EGAS) |
Since 2021 | Co-speaker of the Quantum Valley Lower Saxony Q1 project (QVLS-Q1) |
2021 – 2023 | Member of the CERN SPS Committee |
Since 2022 | Member of the Advisory Board of the “Abbe Center of Photonics” in Jena |
Since 2023 | Member of the Advisory Board of the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung Center for Quantum Photonics (QPhoton) |
Selected Refereed Publications | |
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