Michael Fleischhauer

Michael Fleischhauer is a professor of theoretical physics at Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU) Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany. His research includes theoretical quantum optics, coherent processes in atoms and other quantum systems, quantum properties of nonlinear optical processes, quantum information processing with photons and ensembles, matter-wave optics and many-body physics with darkstate polaritons. He served as a research associate at the University of New Mexico, USA and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany before joining the faculty of the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany which is now RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau. He attended Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München. 

He has led a number of influential international collaborations, is a dedicated mentor, and has served the community through his work on editorial boards, advisory boards, and international conference committees. A pioneer in the field, Fleischhauer’s work has had a profound impact across a range of fields from quantum networking and quantum information science to on-chip optical interconnects for advanced classical computing, and even sensing and metrology.