AIT experts Rainer Hainberger, Center for Health & Bioresources (HB) and Andreas Poppe, Center for Digital Safety & Security (DSS), have been awarded the title of Senior Member by the international scientific society OPTICA. This is the first time that this distinction of the international society for optics and photonics has been awarded to AIT experts.
Optica, formerly OSA (Optical Society of America), currently serves 432,000 members from 181 countries and is the society for the worldwide promotion of optics and photonics. The organisation is a leader in its subject area in providing high-quality scientific and technical information. Since 1916, the Society has provided a common platform for optics and photonics, educating scientists, engineers, educators, technicians and business leaders worldwide. Senior membership is an award that recognises many years of experience and outstanding professional achievement and service in the field of optics and photonics. Rainer Hainberger, group and project leader in the area of diagnostic biosensors in the Competence Unit Molecular Diagnostics (HB) was promoted to the senior member status for, among other things, his scientific and technological contributions in the area of integrated optical waveguide components for medical diagnostic sensor applications. These contributions are the result of numerous research projects initiated by him, which he has carried out with his team in cooperation with renowned research partners in the course of his work at AIT since 2004.
Andreas Poppe is one of the leading experts in quantum technologies at the Center for Digital Safety & Security. Quantum cryptography uses single photons to create cryptographic keys, which, against the background of emerging quantum computers (and thus obsolete current encryption techniques), will continue to secure critical infrastructures as well as provide government stakeholders with tap-proof connections. Poppe is working together with an internationally renowned team in the context of large European programs such as the EuroQCI Initiative (European Quantum Communication Infrastructure Initiative) on post-quantum encryption technologies via terrestrial fiber optic as well as satellite communication networks for mass market deployment to ensure European data sovereignty.
More information at: www.optica.org, 2021 OSA Senior Members | Optica