December 9th, 2021
AQT Co-Founder Rainer Blatt Honored
November 2021: AQT co-founder Rainer was recently awarded the TU Munich Distinguished Affiliated Professorship, and he was also appointed an external member of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching.
Both of these honours are bestowed only on outstanding scientists who have set international standards in their field of work.
Rainer has travelled to Munich quite frequently since the beginning of 2021 as he is the coordinator of Munich Quanum Valley, an alliance aiming to further advance the development of quantum science and quantum technology in and around Munich over the next decade.
Click here to read the full news release of the University of Innsbruck.

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