2018 Entropy Young Investigator Award

Nicolai Friis obtained his PhD in 2013 from the School of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Nottingham (UK). His PhD thesis was awarded the 2014 Václav Votruba Prize for best PhD thesis in theoretical physics. His PhD was followed by a postdoctoral position at IQOQI Innsbruck (2013/2014), and a University Assistant position at University of Innsbruck (2014-2017), both in the group of Hans J. Briegel. In 2017 he started a senior postdoc position in Marcus Huber’s group at IQOQI Vienna. Dr. Friis’s research interests lie in the overlap of quantum information and computation with quantum optics and quantum thermodynamics. Currently, his research is aimed at investigating the connections between resources for quantum computation, quantum metrology, and quantum thermodynamics, in particular the energy cost of creating correlations and entanglement, and the certification and quantification of entanglement under laboratory conditions.