Wolfgang Wieland

Dr. Wolfgang Wieland

Heisenberg Fellow (DFG, German Research Foundation)

Institute of Theoretical Physics
Chair of Theoretical Physics

Room 02.733
Staudtstr. 7/B2
91058 Erlangen

Phone number: +49 9131 85-28478
Email: wolfgang.wieland@gravity.fau.de
Website: http://www.gravity.physik.fau.de

Research Areas

Quantum Geometry of the Null Cone, Asymptotic Symmetries, Quantum Reference Frames

Academic History

Undergraduate studies in Austria (Univ. Innsbruck, TU Vienna, Univ. Vienna), PhD from Aix-Marseille University (supervisor: Prof. Carlo Rovelli, Dr. Simone Speziale), thesis prize in 2014, postdocs in USA, Canada, and Europe: from 2013–2015 at Pennsylvania State University (State College, Canada), 2015–2020 at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo–Canada), 2020–2022 at Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (Vienna, Austria). Bronstein Prize in Loop Quantum Gravity in 2019. Member of IQG since January 2022.