Scientific Committee

Organising Institution

The Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS) combines expertise and competencies in photonics and quantum research at Paderborn University – an important location for pioneering photonic quantum research. Thanks to proven experts in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering, the required expertise to conduct fundamental research and put it into application are available.

Confirmed Speakers as of 17.06.2026. More to be announced soon. 

Plenary

• Rachel Grange | ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Gerard Milburn | National Quantum Computing Centre, United Kingdom
• Pascale Sennelart | Université Paris-Saclay, France

Keynote

• Sophia Economou | Virginia Tech, USA
• Norbert Lütkenhaus | University of Waterloo, Canada
• Fabio Sciarrino | Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
• Richard Warburton | University of Basel, Switzerland

Invited

• Elisabeth Agudelo | TU Wien, Austria
• Ulrik Lund Andersen | Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
• Marc Aßmann | TU Dortmund University, Germany
• Marco Barbieri | Roma Tre University, Italy
• Stephen Barnett | University of Glasgow, Scotland
• Christoph Becher | Saarland University, Germany
• Tristan Benoist | Université de Toulouse, France
• Andreas Bluhm | Grenoble Computer Science Laboratory, France
• Daniel Burgarth | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
• Nicolas Cerf | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Ulysse Chabaud | École Normale Supérieure de Paris, France
• Virginia D'Auria | Université Côte d'Azur, France
• Giulia Ferrini | Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Radim Filip | Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
• Ilaria Gianani | Roma Tre University, Italy
• David  Gross | University of Cologne, Germany 
• Otfried Gühne  | Universität Siegen, Germany
• Tobias Haas | Ulm University, Germany
• Sebastian Hofferberth | Universität Bonn, Germany
• Sven Höfling | University of Würzburg, Germany
• Markus Huber | TU Wien, Austria
• Igor Jex | Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
• Hermann Kampermann | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
• Michał  Karpiński | University of Warsaw, Poland
• Natalia Korolkova | University of St Andrews, Scotland
• Christoph Lange | TU Dortmund University, Germany
• Jonathan Leach | Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
• Peter Lodahl | University of Copenhagen | Denmark
• Marko Loncar | Harvard University, USA
• Christoph Marquardt | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
• Jasmin Meinecke | Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
• Giovanna Morigi | Saarland University, Germany
• Peter Mosley | University of Bath, England 
• Roberto Osellame | Istituto di Fotonica e Nanote|ologie, Italy
• Valentina Parigi | Sorbonne University, France
• Giuseppe Patera | University of Lille
• Martin Plenio | Ulm University, Germany
• Robert Raussendorf | Universität Hannover, Germany
• Katarzyna Roszak |  Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia
• Luis Sanchez-Soto | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
• Tim Schröder | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
• Marty Stevens | NIST, USA
• Birgit Stiller | MPI for the Science of Light, Germany
• Rob Thew | University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Sarah Thomas | University of Oxford, England
• Costanza Toninelli | European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Italy
• Peter van Loock | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
• Ian Walmsley | University of Oxford, England
• Philip Walther | University of Vienna, Austria
• Andrew White | University of Queensland, Australia
• Roberta Zambrini | University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

Use our online registration system for registration & abstract submission. 

PLEASE REGISTER HERE 

Conference Fees: 

Early-Bird (until 31.07): 340€

Standard (starting 01.08): 390€ 

During the booking process, you can select childcare services free of charge. Admission to the HNF Computer Museum is free throughout the conference week (Tue-Fri). The booking for conference catering and the conference dinner is always included and non-optional.
 

Abstracts

Oral presentations are reserved for invited speakers. Abstracts for poster contributions can be submitted until 31 July.

For your Abstract Submission, please use the following templates.

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Travel in Paderborn

The conference will be held in the Congress centre of the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF). The address is Fürstenallee 7, 33102 Paderborn.

By Public Transport
The bus line 9 connects the central station (bus stop "Hauptbahnhof") and the venue (Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, bus stop "MuseumsForum"). It departs regularly and takes less than 10 minutes. Please note that Google Maps doesn't show correct information for public transport connections in Paderborn. We recommend to use information provided by the PaderSprinter or Deutsche Bahn.

By Car
The venue can also be easily reached by car. Conference participants can use the car park of the neighbouring Heinz Nixdorf Institute (Fürstenallee 11, 33102 Paderborn) free of charge.

Travel to Paderborn

By Plane
Close airports with frequently operating train services to Paderborn are Duesseldorf Airport (DUS) and Hannover Airport (HAJ). From Germany's largest airport, Frankfurt Airport (FRA), you can reach Paderborn within less than 4 hours by train.

By Train
The central station Paderborn Hauptbahnhof is located in the city centre of Paderborn. From Düsseldorf or Hannover, Paderborn can be reached within about 2 hours. Please visit Deutsche Bahn for connections and tickets.

Accommodation

Apart from our booking system (Converia), we don’t work with external providers such as travel agencies etc. All e-mails related to our conference that do not come from our official QPS-accounts (qps@mail.uni-paderborn.de & events@phoqs.uni-paderborn.de) or Converia can be considered a scam.

events@phoqs.uni-paderborn.de