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December 3, 2024: We were awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council! For the next five year, we will work on the project "Multidimensional Hyperentangled Photon Graph States - HyperGraph". Read all about it in the press release.
November 22, 2024: Charlotta Gurr successfully defends her Master. Congratulations to her!
November 11, 2024: We participate in the Japanese‐German Symposium on Applications of Quantum Computers, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Berlin-Tokyo city partnership.
November 8, 2024: Welcome! Matthew Kendall is starting his PhD in our group.
November 4, 2024: Welcome! Marianna D'Amato is starting a post-doc in our group.
October 25, 2024: Welcome! Keisuke Oshimi is starting a post-doc in our group.
October 14, 2024: Welcome Alejandro! Alejandro Schössel is starting his Bachelor thesis project in our group.
October 7, 2024: Welcome! Pascal Frehle starts his PhD in our group. Clara Biesgen and Carlos Barriga join our group as student assistants.
October 1, 2024: Congratulations Sinan! Our team member Sinan Gündoğdu was selected as a fellow of Berlin Quantum with the project "Quantum photonic integrated circuits for information processing".
October 1, 2024: Welcome Clara! We are excited to have Clara Baenz joining us as a master student.
September 1, 2024: Goodbye Mustafa! We thank Mustafa Gökçe for his valuable contributions to our work as a master and a PhD student and wish all the best to him.
August 19, 2024: Welcome Nir! We are excited that Prof. Nir Rotenberg is joining our group as a guest researcher for the next six months.
July 12, 2024: Light connections: Charlotta Gurr receives a prize for best Pitch talk. Title: Monitoring charge dynamics in diamond with MHz acquisition rates.
July 1, 2024: Welcome Joseph, welcome Manuel! We are joined by Joseph Pereira and Manuel Vega Artillo through the Humboldt Internship Program this summer.
June 5, 2024: Tim and the IQP team kick off the JST ASPIRE exchange program of the Germany-Japan quantum technologies partnership program together with Prof. Oliver Benson and our Japanese Partners Prof. Yukata Shikano (Tsukuba University), Prof. Masazumi Fujiwara (Okayama University) and Prof. Takafumi Ono (Kagawa University).
May 31, 2024: Goodbye Tomi! We thank Tomi Nguyen for his valuable contributions to our work as a student assistant and wish all the best for the continuation of his studies.
May 13, 2024: Welcome Hannaneh! Today Hannaneh Dortaj is starting a six month research internship in our group.
May 1, 2024: Congratulations Enrico to successfully completing your Master thesis! We thank you for your contributions to our research efforts and wish you all the best for your future!
April 2, 2024: Welcome Robert! Robert Redlich is starting his Bachelor thesis project in our group.
March 21, 2024: Congratulations Lea! Our Master student Lea Marlen Rektorschek successfully defended her thesis today. We wish you all the best for your future!
March 18, 2024: Welcome Max! Max Elias Heimann is starting his Master thesis in our group.
February 22, 2024: Welcome Tom! Tom Ben Dor is starting his Master thesis in our group.
February 8, 2024: Congratulations Karl! Our Bachelor student Karl Lübs successfully defended his thesis today. Thank you for your contribution and all the best for your future endeavours!
February 6, 2024: Tim is holding his inaugural lecture at the Department of Physics. Congratulations!
February 1, 2024: Congratulations Mustafa! After finishing his Master degree in the group, Mustafa Gökçe is starting his PhD.
December 15, 2023: Congratulations Grisha! Our former student assistant Grigory Kornilov is starting his Master thesis in our group.
December 1, 2023: Welcome Domenica! We are very excited to have Domenica Bermeo join our group as a PhD student.
November 14, 2023: Congratulations Julian! We proudly announce that our PhD student Julian Bopp won 1st prize at the Forum Junge Spitzenforschung science competition with his project "Chip-Integrated Diamond-NV Quantum Magnetic Field Camera". The prize is endowed with 10.000 €.
October 17, 2023: We are thrilled to announce that our team members Sinan Gündoğdu and Grigory Kornilov, in collaboration with Dr. Sofia Pazzagli from Humboldt-University AG GOP, were distinguished as finalists for the Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis. Our innovative project "QLAS – the Photonic 3D Printer" focuses on crafting a low-power direct laser writing method to produce 3D photonics with a pronounced refractive index contrast in polymers.
October 12,2023: Congratulations Cem! Our PhD Student Cem Güney Torun is the winner of the best presenter award given at the IOP-HU Early Career Researcher Conference on Condensed Matter Physics, Liyang, China.

October 4, 2023: Congratulations Mustafa! Our student Mustafa Gökçe succesfully defended his Master thesis today.
September 22, 2023: Goodbye Feykun, goodbye Ivan! Today is the last day of Sarp Feykun Sener's and Ivan Kharichkin's summer internships. We really enjoyed having you and wish you all the best for you future!
September 21, 2023: Congratulations Max! Maximilian Kähler successfully defended his master thesis today. We say goodbye and wish you all the best for you next endeavors!
August 10, 2023: Welcome Tomi! We are happy to have Tomi Nguyen joining our group as a student assistant.
July 28, 2023: Goodbye Felipe, goodbye Fenglei! Today our post-doctoral researcher Felipe Perona Martinez is leaving the group. You will be missed after three exciting and enjoyable years! It is also the last day for our guest scientist Fenglei Gu who is returning to Delft. We wish both of you all the best for your future!
July 13, 2023: Congratulations Kilian! Our PhD student Kilian Unterguggenberger is a winner of the Physik-Studienpreis 2023 awarded by the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin for his Master studies.
July 3, 2023: Welcome Ivan! Today Ivan Kharichkin is joining us as a research intern.
June 29, 2023: Congratulations Lea! We are extremely proud to announce that IQP student Lea Marlen Rektorschek is part of the winning team of the Qiskit Hackathon at the World of Quantum. Nicely done!
June 19, 2023: Welcome Karl, welcome Feykun! We are happy to have Karl Lübs joining our group as a Bachelor student and Sarp Feykun Sener as a research intern.
June 17, 2023: Can you guess the wavelength of laser light? We were at the Long Night of Sciences to answer this question and all the others you had on optics, lasers and quantum physics. Thank you for coming and thank you to everyone who volunteered in preparing and supervising the experiments!
May 8, 2023: Laura, Julian, and Tim are presenting our work at CLEO in San José, California.
April 17, 2023: Congratulations to Maarten and Kilian! Our PhD students Maarten van der Hoeven and Kilian Unterguggenberger were admitted to the Berlin School of Optical Sciences and Technology.
April 17, 2023: Welcome Charlotta! Today Charlotta Gurr starts her master's thesis in our group.
April 6, 2023 Our research is highlighted in HU, FBH, and IRIS news "Researchers at HU and Ferdinand-Braun-Institut make an important step towards the quantum internet".

April 6, 2023: Goodbye Tim! Tim Luca Turan will join TU Delft as a PhD student. We wish you all the best for the future!
March 15, 2023: Tim Schröder presents our contribution to the development of quantum networks at the National Conference on IT-Security Research in Berlin.
February 16, 2023: Congratulations Franziska! Franziska Marie Herrmann successfully defended her master thesis on "Development of a stable, compact and cost-effective laser light source for resonant control of tin-vacancy color centers" today. She will join Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) as a PhD student. We wish you all the best for the future!
February 1, 2023: Welcome back Helen! We are extremely glad to have Helen Jurscha back as our administrative assistant. Welcome Fenglei! We are excited to have Fenglei Gu from TU Delft join our group for the next six months to work on quantum repeater modelling.
January 16, 2023: Welcome Yannick and congratulations Jonas! Today Yannick Strocka and Jonas Wollenberg start their PhD theses in our group. Jonas recently completed his master thesis with us, and we are excited to have Yannick join us as a new group member!

December 15, 2022: Congratulations Tim! Tim Turan successfully defended his masters thesis on "Adiabatic Fiber Tips for Efficient Coupling to Diamond Vacancy Centers" today.
November 24, 2022: Congratulations Jonas! Jonas Wollenberg successfully defended his masters thesis today.
November 14, 2022: Congratulations Tim! Our group leader Tim Schröder is now a professor at Humboldt-Universität.
November 1, 2022: Welcome Sarah, welcome Doguscan! We have two new members joining our group today: Sarah Benbouabdellah is starting her PhD and Dr. Doguscan Ahiboz is starting a Post-Doc.
October 17, 2022: Welcome Lea! Today Lea Marlen Rektorschek starts her master's thesis in our group.
October 12, 2022: Congratulations Mariano! We are happy to announce that Mariano Isaza Monsalve successfully defended his master's thesis today. Since this also marks the end of your time with us, we say thank you for your contributions and wish you all the best for your future!
October 10, 2022: Welcome Anil! Today Anil Palaci starts his master's thesis in our group.
September 30, 2022: Congratulations Cem! Cem Güney Torun is now a finalist at 'Emil Wolf Student Paper Competition' that will be ongoing at the Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science Conference. He will have an oral presentation titled Orbital Coherent Population Trapping with a Tin-Vacancy Color Center.
September 23, 2022: Members of IQP participated in the Climate Strike in Berlin to demand actions against a climate catastrophe!

September 20, 2022: Welcome Mustafa! We are happy to have Mustafa Gökçe join our group as a research intern.
August 15, 2022: Welcome Grigory! We are happy to have Grigory Kornilov joining us as a student assistant!
August 1, 2022: Welcome Enrico and Congratulations Kilian! Today Enrico Michael starts his Master thesis in our group and Kilian Unterguggenberger his PhD!
July 14, 2022: Goodbye Steven! Our student assistant Steven Jeremies leaves our group. We wish you all the best for your future!
July 6, 2022: Congratulations! Our group member Dr. Sinan Gündogdu and Dr. Sofia Pazzagli from the GOP lab have won the first prize in the Research to Market Challenge 2022 within the Digital Technologies category for their Photonic 3D Printer pitch.
July 2, 2022: Can you guide light with jet of water? How do you build your own spectrometer out of a CD and a piece of cardboard? We really enjoyed answering these and more of your questions during the Long Night of Sciences. Thank you for coming and see you next year!
July 1, 2022: Welcome Mohamed! Today, Mohamed Belhassen is starting as a PhD student at IQP.
June 27, 2022: Welcome Ozan! Ozan Nacitarhan is joining us for an internship.

June 20, 2022: We kicked off the QPIS project together with our collaborators from TU Munich today! Our goal is to build an integrated quantum-photonic scalable memory.
June 15, 2022: Congratulations Laura! Laura Orphal-Kobin was elected as IRIS young scientist representative together with our friend Pablo Hernández López! Read more here.
June 15, 2022: Our group leader Tim Schröder was invited to Radio Eins to talk about the 'Book a Scientist' program of the Leibniz Association. Listen to the interview here.
May 16, 2022: Congratulations Maarten! Maarten van der Hoeven started his PhD thesis in our group.
May 16, 2022: Welcome Drishti! Drishti Baruah is doing a summer internship from May to the end of August.
May 11, 2022: Congratulations Kilian! Kilian Unterguggenberger has successfully defended his master thesis.
April 9, 2022: Goodbye Joe and Mo! Dr. Joseph Munns and Dr. Mohanad Al Mamoori have left the group. We wish you all the best in your future careers and we know you will keep on accomplishing great things.
April 1, 2022: Welcome Kabo! Kabonire Ruhinda is doing a 3-months internship on generation of coherent optical pulses from April to the end of June.
March 1, 2022: Welcome Marco! Marco Stucki has joined our joint group in FBH as a PhD student.
February 28, 2022: Congratulations Maarten! Maarten van der Hoeven has successfully defended his master thesis.
November 8, 2021: We are part of the joint research project Quantenrepeater.Link (QR.X) to develop the quantum communications network of the future! Funded by the federal ministry of research, it connects 43 partners across universities, research institutes and companies. Read more about its launch in the press release.
October 4, 2021: Welcome Max! Maximilian Kähler joined our group as a master student.
September 30, 2021: Goodbye Helen! Our administrative assistant Helen Jurscha left our group. We enjoyed having you on board and wish you all the best for your future!
September 15, 2021: Welcome Alok! Alok Gokhale joined our group as a PhD student.
August 26, 2021: Congratulations again, Cem! Group member Cem Güney Torun wins the first Quantum Future Audience Award for Best Pitch. Watch the recording of the finale on YouTube.
August 18, 2021: IQP is going on retreat! We come together in Spreewald for three days of paddling excursions, team challenges and science slams.
July 23, 2021: Congratulations Cem! Our PhD student Cem Güney Torun is one of five candidates to win the Quantum Future Award 2021 for his master thesis on Numerical Optimisation and Experimental Characterisation of Fibre Coupling Properties of Tin-Vacancy Colour Centres in Diamond Nanostructures.
July 15, 2021: Welcome Steven! Steven Jeremies joined our group as a student assistant.
July 7, 2021: Laura was given the honor to meet the Dutch royals at TU Berlin and introduce the BOS.QT graduate school to Queen Máxima.

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June 16, 2021: Welcome Sinan, Welcome Mohanad! Dr. Sinan Gündoğdu and Dr. Mohanad Al Mamoori joined our group as postdoctoral researchers.
May 6, 2021: We are part of the first Einstein Research Unit of the Berlin University Alliance, focused on quantum computing! We want to explore how quantum computers can introduce a revolution in computational capacity and which insights they can offer for high energy physics or quantum chemistry. Read more on the IRIS and Berlin University Alliance webpages.
April 12, 2021: Congratulations Franziska, congratulations Tim! Franziska Herrmann and Tim Turan started their Master theses in our group.
March 1, 2021: Welcome Tim! Tim Turan started a student internship in our group.
March 1, 2021: Congratulations Cem! Cem Güney Torun started his PhD thesis in our group.
February 17, 2021: Welcome Jonas! After working part-time on a research project, Jonas Wollenberg has started his M. Sc. thesis in our group.
February 15, 2021: Congratulations Cem, Congratulations Pascal! Cem Güney Torun and Pascal Frehle successfully defended their Master theses. They are the first to graduate from our group! While Cem will stay with us, we say Goodbye to Pascal and wish him all the best for his future endeavours!
February 15, 2021: An article about our success in the fabrication of diamond nanopillars was published on the FBH website.
January 28, 2021: We are the first group at Humboldt-University to successfully place and receive an order through the new SAP system.
January 1, 2021: Welcome Helen! Helen Jurscha has joined our group as an administrative assistant.
January 1, 2021: IQP wishes a Healthy and Happy New Year!
December 17, 2020: Happy holidays from IQP! Our team celebrated with an online christmas party. Take a look at some impressions at Events and Activities.
October 1, 2020: Welcome Franziska! Franziska Herrmann has joined our group as a student assistant.
September 7, 2020: Welcome Kilian! Mr. Kilian Unterguggenberger has joined our group as a M. Sc. student.
September 7, 2020: Congratulations Maarten! Mr. Maarten van der Hoeven has started his M. Sc. thesis in our group.
August 1, 2020: Welcome Maarten! Mr. Maarten van der Hoeven has joined our group as a student assistant.
April 30, 2020: Welcome Mariano! Mr. Mariano Isaza Monsalve has joined our group as a M.Sc. student.
April 1, 2020: Welcome Felipe! Dr. Felipe Perona has joined our group as a Post-Doc.
March 17, 2020: Goodbye Saili! Ms. Saili Naik has left our group. Best of luck with your future endeavours.
February 19, 2020: Welcome Gregor! Dr. Gregor Pieplow has joined our group as a Post-Doc.
February 1, 2020: Welcome Tommaso! Dr. Tommaso Pregnolato has joined our group as a Post-Doc.
February 1, 2020: Congrulations Joe! Dr. Joseph Munns has commenced a “Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers” and will be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for 2 years.
January 1, 2020: Happy new year from IQP!
December 21, 2019: Our team had a Christmas dinner and a bowling party. For pictures please refer to Events and Activities.
November 6, 2019: Congratulation! Laura and Julian joined the graduate school BOS.QT.
November 4, 2019: Welcome Julian! Mr. Julian Bopp has joined our group as a PhD student.
October 29, 2019: Our team was featured in an article in the Adlershof Journal!
September 15, 2019: Congratulations Cem! Mr. Cem Güney Torun is hired as a student assistant in IQP.
September 10, 2019: Welcome Saili! Ms. Saili Naik has joined our group as a M.Sc. student.
September 5, 2019: Congratulations Tim! Dr. Tim Schröder receives ERC Starting Grant 2019.
August 28, 2019: Welcome Pascal! Mr. Pascal Frehle has joined our group as M.Sc. student.
August 20, 2019: Our group had sailed on the river Spree. For pictures please refer to Events and Activities.
August, 2019: We are hiring PhD and Postdocs.
July 11, 2019: Congratulations to Laura! Mrs. Laura Orphal-Kobin was awared the Physik-Studienpreis 2019 der Physikalischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin.
July 9, 2019: Congratulations Laura! Mrs. Laura Orphal-Kobin was awared the Lise-Meitner-Preis.
May 10, 2019: Welcome Boris! Dr. Boris Nayenov has joined our group as a guest scientist.
May 9, 2019: Our website is online.
May 7, 2019: Construction of our laboratories is finished.
April, 2019: Welcome Cem! Mr. Cem Güney Torun has joined our group as a M.Sc. student.
January, 2019: Welcome Joe! Dr. Joseph Munns has joined our group as a post-doc.
November, 2018: Welcome Laura! Ms. Laura Orphal has joined our group as a PhD student.
October, 2018: Integrated Quantum Photonics Group is founded in Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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