Short biography
I graduated in the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona, Spain in 1997. I obtained the Ph.D. degree in in the Laboratory of Photonics of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain in 2002. My thesis advisor was Prof. Lluis Torner and the title of my thesis was "Optical vortices: Fundamentals and applications". For this work I was awarded with the "Ph.D. special prize" from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. I did a two years post-doc in the group of Prof. Zeilinger in the University of Vienna, where I was awarded with two consecutive Fellowships: the Lise Meitner Fellowship (funded by the Austrian Science Foundation) and the Marie Curie Fellowship (funded by the European Union). Afterwards I got a post-doc position in the Institute of Photonic Sciences, where I am presently working, first funded by the Ramon y Cajal program and presently by the ICREA JR. Fellowship. Research interests
Dr. Gabriel Molina-Terriza is working on the field of quantum optics and quantum information. The basic idea behind his research is to control the properties of the weakest amount of light that Nature can produce: the photon. When using such faint light some basic features of quantum physics can be tested as, for example, quantum entanglement. Also, he is working on some applications using quantum light: quantum communications and quantum cryptography. Key words
Quantum optics
Quantum information
Singular optics