Stephanie Wehner

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Stephanie Dorothea Christine Wehner (born 8 May 1977 in Würzburg)[1] is a German physicist and computer scientist.

She is the Roadmap Leader of the Quantum Internet and Networked Computing initiative [2] at , Delft University of Technology.[3] She is also known for introducing the noisy-storage model in quantum cryptography.[4] Wehner's research focuses mainly on quantum cryptography and quantum communications.

Wehner, together with Jonathan Oppenheim, discovered that the amount of non-locality in quantum mechanics is limited by the uncertainty principle.[5][6][7]

Education and early life[]

She studied at the University of Amsterdam and obtained her Ph.D. at CWI. Following this she moved to Caltech as a postdoctoral researcher (under John Preskill).[3][8]

Wehner was involved in computer security, for example kernel rootkits,[9][10] and worked as a professional hacker.[11]

Research[]

From 2010 to 2014, Wehner was an assistant professor and later associate professor at the department of computer science at the National University of Singapore and a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies. In 2014, she started as associate professor at , Delft University of Technology and as of 2016 she is Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor at the Delft University of Technology.

QCRYPT conference[]

In 2011, Wehner and others founded the [12] conference series.[13] The latest conference was organised in the Shanghai International Conference Center, Shanghai.

Quantum Internet Alliance[]

Stephanie Wehner is the coordinator of the Quantum Internet Alliance which was awarded ten million Euros in October 2018 by the European Commission.[14] Commenting on the award, Wehner said: "This grant allows us to speed up in order to keep Europe at the front of this fascinating field of research and technology development”.

Publications[]

Her publications include:

  • Oppenheim, Jonathan, and Stephanie Wehner. "The uncertainty principle determines the nonlocality of quantum mechanics." Science 330.6007 (2010): 1072–1074.[5]
  • Hensen, Bas, et al. "Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres." Nature526.7575 (2015): 682.[15]

Awards[]

Ammodo Science Award in 2019 [16][17]

References[]

  1. ^ S.D.C. Wehner, 1977 - at the University of Amsterdam Album Academicum website.
  2. ^ "Quantum Internet and Networked Computing Archives - QuTech". QuTech. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Stephanie Wehner's Webpage".
  4. ^ Wehner, S.; C. Schaffner; B. Terhal (2008). "Cryptography from noisy-storage". Physical Review Letters. 100 (22): 220502. arXiv:0711.2895. Bibcode:2008PhRvL.100v0502W. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.220502. PMID 18643410.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Oppenheim, J.; Wehner, S. (18 November 2010). "The Uncertainty Principle Determines the Nonlocality of Quantum Mechanics". Science. 330 (6007): 1072–1074. arXiv:1004.2507. Bibcode:2010Sci...330.1072O. doi:10.1126/science.1192065. PMID 21097930.
  6. ^ "Quantum uncertainty controls 'action at a distance'".
  7. ^ "Quantum world more ordered than thought". Archived from the original on 2012-04-03.
  8. ^ "IQI Caltech".
  9. ^ "Fun and Games with FreeBSD Kernel Modules".
  10. ^ "Atrak home page". Archived from the original on 2013-03-27.
  11. ^ Castelvecchi, Davide (2018-02-15). "The quantum internet has arrived (and it hasn't)". Nature. 554 (7692): 289–292. Bibcode:2018Natur.554..289C. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-01835-3. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 29446394.
  12. ^ "QCrypt Charter". QCrypt 2017. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  13. ^ "QCrypt 2018 – 8th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, held in Shanghai, China, 27–31 August 2018". 2018.qcrypt.net. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  14. ^ "EU awards ten million euro to European Quantum Internet Alliance to speed up development of Quantum Internet". TU Delft. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  15. ^ Hensen, B.; Bernien, H.; Dréau, A. E.; Reiserer, A.; Kalb, N.; Blok, M. S.; Ruitenberg, J.; Vermeulen, R. F. L.; Schouten, R. N. (October 2015). "Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres". Nature. 526 (7575): 682–686. arXiv:1508.05949. Bibcode:2015Natur.526..682H. doi:10.1038/nature15759. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 26503041.
  16. ^ "Stephanie Wehner wins Ammodo Science Award 2019". QuTech. 2019-01-29. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  17. ^ "Home". Ammodo Science Award. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
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