Immanuel Bloch

Immanuel Bloch is scientific director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching and holds a chair for experimental physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. His scientific work is among the most frequently cited in the field of quantum physics and has helped to open a new interdisciplinary research field at the interface of atomic physics, quantum optics, quantum information science and solid state physics. For his research, he has received numerous international awards, including the Körber European Science Prize, the Harvey Prize, the Zeiss Research Award, the Stern Gerlach Medal of the German Physical Society and was named Clarivate Citation Laureate in 2022 for work on quantum simulations.