Nicolai Friis
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      • Entanglement Detection and Certification
      • Fermionic Quantum Information
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      • Relativistic Quantum Information
      • Entanglement in Analogue Gravity Systems
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Curriculum Vitae


Current Position

2022 – now
2017 – 2022
Senior Postdoc in the Quantum Information and Thermodynamics group led by Marcus Huber.
University Assistant (Universitätsassistent), Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics (Atominstitut), TU Wien
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information – IQOQI Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Previous Positions

2014 -- 2017
2013 -- 2014
Postdoc in the group of Hans J. Briegel
University Assistant (Universitätsassistent), Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria

Education
2022

2013
2010

Habilitation for the subject Theoretical Physics at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna
[download habilitation thesis (pdf) or habilitation colloquium (pdf)]

PhD, School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Nottingham, Supervisors: Ivette Fuentes and Gerardo Adesso
Physics Diploma (Mag. rer. nat., MSc equivalent), Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria, Supervisor Reinhold A. Bertlmann

Grants, Prizes & Awards
2022
2022
2018
2014


Stand-Alone Project “Entanglement-based certification of quantum technologies (EBCQT)" (PI, € 396 k), Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Large Grant “Emergence of Objective Reality: From Qubit to Oscilloscope" (JTF, co-PI, w. Felix Binder and Maximilian Lock, € 560 k/154 k)

Stand-Alone Project “Resources for flexible quantum information processing" (PI, € 415 k), Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Václav Votruba Prize 2014 for the best thesis in theoretical physics (CZK 50 k), Doppler Institute for Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics, Prague, Czech Republic

Mentoring of Postdocs
from 03/2023
2023
2022 -- now
2019
2018 -- 2019

Phila Rembold (Postdoc)
Tamás Kriváchy (Postdoc)
Tom Rivlin (PostDoc, TU Wien, jointly with Max Lock)
Tiago Debarba (Visiting PostDoc, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazill)
Yelena Guryanova (PostDoc, IQOQI Vienna)


Supervision of Graduate Students
2023
2023
2023
2023 -- now
2023 -- now
2023 -- now
2022 -- now
2020 -- 2021
2019 -- 2022
2019
2017 -- 2019
2016

Olga Leskovjanová (visiting PhD student, Palacký University, Olomouc, April-June 2023)
Julia Mathé (MSc., TU Wien, jointly with Giuseppe Vitagliano and Silke Bühler-Paschen)
Markus Miethlinger (MSc., University of Vienna)
Klára Baksová (PhD student, TU Wien)

Tomasz Andrzejewski (PhD student, TU Wien)
Ida Mishra (PhD student, TU Wien)

Alexandra Bergmayr (PhD student, TU Wien, jointly with M. Huber)
Markus Miethlinger (BSc., University of Vienna)
Simon Morelli (PhD, University of Vienna, jointly with M. Huber)
Faraj Bakhshinezhad (visiting PhD student, Sharif University of Technology, Teheran)
Benjamin Jablonski (MSc., University of Vienna, jointly with M. Huber)
Leonhard Czarnetzki (BSc., University of Innsbruck, jointly with H. J. Briegel)


Institutional Responsibilities
2022
2016 – 2017
2012 – 2013
2011 -- 2013
Organizer, Quantum Information & Thermodynamics Group Seminar, ATI, TU Wien
Organizer, Quantum Information & Computation Seminar, University of Innsbruck, AT
Organizer, Relativistic Quantum Information Seminar, University of Nottingham, UK
Postgraduate Representative on the Postgraduate Affairs Committee (School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham)

Membership of Scientific Socities
since 2017

Deputy President of “Verein zur Förderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften" (legal body behind the open-access journal Quantum)

Editorial Work and Reviewing Activities
since 2021
since 2020

2017 - 2022

since 2014

2020

2022/2023
2019

2018



Editor at Quantum Journal
Quality control and copy-editing of Quantum Views (perspective articles in Quantum, the open-access peer-reviewed journal for quantum science and related fields)
International Editorial Board Member for Journal of Physics Communications (IoP Publishing)


Reviewer: 103 verified reviews in 27 different journals (see publons profile), including Nat. Phys.; Nat. Commun.; Phys. Rev. (Lett., X, Appl., A, D, & E); Quantum; npj Quant. Inf.; New. J. Phys.
IOP Trusted Reviewer Status for ‘exceptionally high level of peer review competency’

Programme-Committee Member for QTD 2023 (to be held at TU Wien)
Programme-Committee Member for Q-Turn 2020 (held online due to COVID-19 pandemic)
PhD Thesis examiner (Sebastian Kish, University of Queensland, 2019)
Programme-Committee Member for YQIS 2019 (Sopot, Poland)
Programme-Committee Member for YQIS Conference and CoQuS Summer School 2018 (Vienna)
Programme-Committee Member for Q-Turn 2018 (Florianópolis, Brazil)



Organization of Scientific Meetings
2022
 2017
2016
2012 -- 2013
2012 -- 2013
2011

Co-Organizer, QTD2023: Quantum Thermodynamics Conference 2023, to be held at TU Wien
Organizer of the December 2017 Nonlocal Seminar at IQOQI Vienna
Organizer of the summer school "Introductory Course on Quantum Information" held at the University of Innsbruck, 12th-14th of July 2016

Organizing committee for the conference RQI-N 2013 held in Nottingham in June 2013
Organizing committee for the postgraduate workshop "Quantum Fields, Gravity & Information 2013" held in Nottingham in April 2013
Local organizing committee for the ESF PESC Strategic Workshop on "Signatures of Quantumness in Complex Systems" in Nottingham


Invited Talks
March 2023
August 2022

June 2021
June 2018
April 2016


March 2015
February 2014

December 2012
July 2012

DPG Frühjahrstagung (Spring Meeting of the German physical society, Hannover, 5-10 March 2023, invited by O. Gühne, G. Burkard)
Conference "Measurement-Based Quantum Computation, Learning and Agency" (Obergurgl, Tyrol, organizers G. De las Cuevas, W. Dür, R. Raussendorf, V. Dunjko)

Workshop "Entanglement in Quantum Fields" held June 28-30, 2021 at IWH Heidelberg (Germany) + online
Conference "APCTP-KIAS workshop on Motors and Engines" held June 25-27, 2018, KIAS, Seoul, South Korea [download presentation]
Workshop "Recent Advances in Continuous-variable Quantum Information Theory" (RACQIT) held at
Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona

Invited talk at the University of Vienna on the occasion of the Celebration of Reinhold Bertlmann's 70th Birthday
Workshop "Quantum Mechanics Tests in Particle, Atomic, Nuclear and Complex Systems: 50 years after Bell's renowned theorem" at the European centre for theoretical studies in nuclear physics and related areas (ECT*) in Trento, Italy [download presentation].
"9th Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory" at the University of Vienna
Workshop on Eff ective Gravity in Fluids and Superfluids at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste


Contributed Talks
February 2020
December 2018
April 2017

March 2017
December 2016

September 2015
July 2015
January 2015
October 2014
September 2014

April 2014
December 2013

June 2013
March 2013
November 2012
June 2012

September 2011

June 2011

Workshop "Entanglement Quantification in Cold Gases" at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna
Mini-Workshop on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics at IQOQI Vienna
Workshop Secure Communication via Quantum Channels at ZIF in Bielefeld, Germany

5th Quantum Thermodynamics Conference at the University of Oxford
35th SFB FoQuS meeting at the University of Vienna
Focus Meeting Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Thermodynamics in Smolenice, Slovakia
Joint Annual Meeting of the Austrian Physical Society and the Swiss Physical Society in Vienna
Conference RQI-N 2015 at Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA [download presentation (pdf)]
QUAINT-EPSRC-FQXi workshop on Quantum Cybernetics & Control 2015 at the University of Nottingham
27th SFB FoQuS meeting at the University of Innsbruck
Seventh International Workshop DICE 2014 titled "Spacetime - Matter - Quantum Mechanics ... news on missing links" at Castello Pasquini/Castiglioncello (Tuscany, Italy).
25th SFB FoQuS meeting held at the Atominstitut of the Vienna University of Technology
23rd SFB FoQuS meeting held at the University of Vienna

Conference RQI-N 2013 at the University of Nottingham
Workshop When Relativistic Quantum Information met Analogue Gravity held at the University of Nottingham
Postgraduate conference Quantum Square at the University of Nottingham
Workshop "Theory Meets Experiment: Finding Proposals Towards Testing Foundational Issues in Particle Physics" at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute of the University of Vienna
Conference RQI-N 2012 at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada [watch video]

Conference "Relativistic Quantum Information North" at the Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC in Madrid [download presentation]                 
Workshop "Relativity meets Entanglement and High Energy" at Imperial College, London
8th Central European Quantum Information Processing Workshop (CEQIP) in Znojmo, Czech Republic [download presentation]


Conferences Posters
July 2018
July 2016
June/July 2016

July 2014
June 2014
October 2013
June 2013

Poster presentation at the 4th Seefeld Workshop on Quantum Information in Seefeld, Tyrol, Austria
Poster presentation of the 33rd SFB FoQuS meeting at the University of Innsbruck
Poster presentation at the 3rd Seefeld Workshop on Quantum Information in Seefeld, Tyrol, Austria

Poster presentation at the conference "Quantum [Un]Speakables II: 50 Years of Bell's Theorem" held at the University of Vienna
Poster presentation at the 2nd Seefeld Workshop on Quantum Information held in Seefeld, Tyrol, Austria
Poster presentation at the conference CEQIP 2014 in Znojmo, Czech Republic [download poster (pdf)]
Poster presentation at the 22nd SFB FoQuS meeting in Innsbruck
Poster presentation at the conference CEQIP 2013 in Valtice, Czech Republic [download poster (pdf)]


Teaching Experience
Lecturer at TU Wien
March 2023 - June 2023
Oct. 2022 - Jan. 2023
Lecture and Exercise (VU) Statistical Physics I (6 ECTS, jointly w. A. Toschi)
Lecture (Vorlesung) Quantum Thermodynamics I (3 ECTS, jointly w. M. Huber)
Lecturer at the University of Vienna
March 2020 - June 2020
Oct. 2019 - Jan. 2020
March 2019 - June 2019
Oct. 2018  - Jan. 2019

March 2018  - June 2018
Lecture (Vorlesung) Quantum Information (4 ECTS)
Seminar Entanglement beyond qubits and the foundation of thermodynamics (5 ECTS)
Seminar High-dimensional quantum information and thermodynamics (5 ECTS)
Lecture (Vorlesung) Quantum Thermodynamics II (2.5 ECTS)
Lecture (Vorlesung) Quantum Thermodynamics II - Exercises (2.5 ECTS)
Lecture (Vorlesung) Quantum Thermodynamics I (2.5 ECTS)
Lecturer at the University of Innsbruck
Oct. 2016 - Jan. 2017
March 2016 - June 2016
Oct. 2015 - Jan. 2016
March 2015 - June 2015
Oct.2014 - Jan. 2015

Proseminar (PS) “Theoretical Quantum Information" (5 ECTS)
PS “Quantentheorie" (3 groups, 4 ECTS each)
PS “Relativiy" (3 ECTS) & “Theoretical Quantum Information" (5 ECTS)
PS “Quantentheorie" (2 groups, 4 ECTS each)
PS “Relativity" (3 ECTS)

Postgraduate Student Teacher at the University of Nottingham
Oct. 2010 - June 2013
“HG1 MPA - Mathematics for Physics and Astronomy" (10 ECTS)
“G12 VEC - Vector Calculus" (5 ECTS)
“G12 IMP - Introduction to Mathematical Physics" (10 ECTS)
Lecturer at the University of Vienna
March 2010 - Sept. 2010
“Exercises for Theoretical Physics II - Quantum Mechanics" (3 ECTS)

Tutor at the University of Vienna
March 2010 - July 2010

Oct. 2009 - Feb. 2010

March 2009 - July 2009
Oct. 2008 - Feb. 2009
“Seminar entanglement, relativity, decoherence and geometry in quantum physics II” (5 ECTS) and “Quantum physics without formalism: Interdisciplinary seminar on quantum physics” (5 ECTS)
“Theoretical Physics I - Classical Mechanics" (3 ECTS)
“Quantum physics for Non-physicists” (5 ECTS)
“Theoretical Physics II - Quantum Mechanics" (3 ECTS)
“Theoretical Physics I - Classical Mechanics" (3 ECTS)
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