ICTQT

Full Professor at the University of Gdańsk, Correspondent Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), expert in quantum mechanics and quantum interferometry, author of more than 160 research works, published in the world’s leading journals. Member of the scientific boards of several institutions, such as the Quantum Information Center in Gdańsk and EU’s QUANT-ERA. Winner of the 2013 FNP Award in Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences „for research on multi-photon entangled states, which led to the formulation of information causality as a principle of physics.” Former member of the National Science Centre’s board, and former Associate Editor of Physical Review. The results of Professor Żukowski’s research on multi-photon entangled states have not only theoretical implications. They have contributed to the development of multi-photon interferometry, which is the basis for experimental implementations of the prototypes of future quantum information technologies, such as quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography.

Graduate of the University of Gdańsk, he works at the Gdańsk University of Technology and is now in charge of the ICTQT team, member of the Scientific Board at the Quantum Information Center (KCIK). Author and co-author of more than 150 articles in quantum information theory and fundamentals of quantum mechanics. Professor Horodecki is the co-founder of the Quantum Information Center and currently a member of its Scientific Board. He is one of the creators of the Horodecki criterion (1996) for determining if a quantum state is entangled (and the article with this criterion is the most widely cited original scientific paper in the history of the University of Gdańsk). He was also among those who discovered what is known as bound entanglement (Physical Review Letters; 1998), and many fundamental laws of quantum information.