Education and Academic Positions 1993 Graduated in Physics from The Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 1993 Assistant professor at the “Department d’Enginyeria Electrònica” Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 1994 Degree in Physics from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 1997 Titular d'Escola Universitaria associate professor at the “Department d’Enginyeria Electrònica” from UAB Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 1998 Marie Curie fellowship from European Community; Scientific research at the CNRS-IEMN (Lille, France) with tyhe group of professor Olivier Vanbesien Institute d'Electronique 1999 Ph.D in Electrical Enginering from Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. (mark: Sobresaliente Cum Laude. phD Special award Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 2000 Advanced Master in Signal and Comuinitaction Theory from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya 2001 Visiting professor at the Physics and Astronomy Department at SUNY (New York, USA) with the group of professor Konstantin Likahrev New York State University at Stony brook 2003 Permanent Position as an associate professor at the “Department d’Enginyeria Electrònica”

Hrvoje Nikolic, born in 1970 in Zagreb, Croatia, is a theoretical physicist working at the Theoretical Physics Division of Rudjer Boskovic Institute in Zagreb, Croatia. His research interests cover various foundational aspects of theoretical physics, including foundations of quantum mechanics, general relativity, cosmology, particle physics, quantum field theory and string theory. Education 2001 PhD in physics (University of Zagreb) 1998 Master degree in physics (University of Zagreb) 1995 Bachelor degree in physics (University of Zagreb) Awards and Achievements - Ruđer-Bošković-Institute director award for a published paper in physics (2010) - Honorable Mention of the Gravity Research Foundation 2006 Essay Competition - Honorable Mention of the Gravity Research Foundation 2005 Essay Competition Classes Physics I, 2001-2002 (Faculty of Electric and Computer Engineering, University of Zagreb, Croatia) Featured Publications - H. Nikolić, Horava-Lifshitz gravity, absolute time, and objective particles in curved space, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 25, 1595 (2010). - H. Nikolić, QFT as pilot-wave theory of particle creation and destruction, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 25, 1477 (2010). - H. Nikolić, Resolving the black-hole information paradox by treating time on an equal footing with space, Phys. Lett. B 678, 218 (2009). - H. Nikolić, Time in relativistic and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, Int. J. Quantum Inf. 7, 595 (2009). - H. Nikolić, Unparticle as a particle with arbitrary mass, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 23, 2645 (2008). - H. Nikolić, Quantum mechanics: Myths and facts, Found. Phys. 37, 1563 (2007). - B. Guberina, R. Horvat, H. Nikolić, Dynamical dark energy with a constant vacuum energy density, Phys. Let. B 636, 80 (2006). - B. Guberina, R. Horvat, H. Nikolić, Generalized holographic dark energy and the IR cutoff problem, Phys. Rev. D 72, 125011 (2005). - H. Nikolić, Relativistic contraction and related effects in noninertial frames, Phys. Rev. A 61, 032109 (2000).

Publications 1 to 3 are from my work on Biophysics as an undergraduate research assistant at PUC-Rio. Publications 4 to 9 came from my Masters’ work on Atomic Collisions in the Van de Graff laboratory also at PUC-Rio. After my Masters I spent about a year working in the “real world”. Well, close to it — I worked for the Institute for Radioprotection at the National Nuclear Energy Commission, in Rio de Janeiro. After a while I decided to go back to the excitement of academic life but with a complete change of fields: from experimental Biophysics to Atomic Collisions to theoretical foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Publications from 10 forward refer to this current incarnation.

Herman Batelaan studies the fundamental interaction between light, electrons and atoms. His interests focus on studying the foundations of quantum mechanics and electromagnetic interactions. These studies include theoretical analysis, simulation using supercomputing (HCC and XSEDE), and a strong emphasis on experiment. (source: Department of Physics & Astronomy)

Professor Nicolas Gisin was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1952. After a master in physics and a degree in mathematics, he received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Geneva in 1981 for his dissertation in quantum and statistical physics. The “Fondation Louis de Broglie” recognised this work with an award. After a post-doc at the University of Rochester, NY, he joint a start-up company, Alphatronix, dedicated to fiber instrumentation for the telecommunication industry. Initially head of the software, he quickly became responsible for the hardware-software interface. Four years later he joined a Swiss software company developing an image processing package which received the attention of the American journal “PC Magazine”. In 1988 an opportunity to join the Group of Applied Physics at the University of Geneva as head of the optics section brought him back to the academic life. At the time the optics section was entirely devoted to support of the Swiss PTT (now Swisscom). In order to get a critical mass and stability, the optics section under the impulse of Prof. N. Gisin started two new research directions, one in optical sensors, one in quantum optics. The telecom and the sensing activities led to many patents and technological transfers to Swiss and international industries. Several products had and still have a commercial success. The quantum optics activities are more basic research oriented. The main theme is to combine the large expertise of the group in optical fibers with basic quantum effects. More recently, the demonstration of quantum cryptography and of long distance quantum entanglement received quite a lot of attention as well from the international scientific community as from the press “grand public”. In 2009, he was awarded the First Biennial John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and their Applications. (source: Université de Genève)

Peter Barker got a background in atomic and molecular laser spectroscopy, non-linear optics, and laser trapping and cooling. Within the last 10 years his research has concentrated on the study of molecular cooling and trapping and on quantum cavity optomechanics. He has expertise in developing applications from more basic optical physics research. He was awarded a PhD in Physics from the University of Queensland, Australia in 1996. From 1997 to 2001 he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate, and then a Research Scientist and Lecturer in the Applied Physics Group in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Princeton University. At Princeton, I began to study the manipulation of atoms and molecules in pulsed optical fields by studying coherent Rayleigh scattering from molecules trapped in optical lattices. During his time he was part of a multidisciplinary team of physicists and engineers from Princeton University, Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore developing a new type of wind tunnel for accelerating gases to hypersonic speeds using lasers and electron beams. In 2001 he took up the position of Lecturer in the Physics Department at Heriot-Watt University and became a Senior Lecturer in 2004. In October 2006 he joined the AMOP group at UCL as a Reader and was promoted to Professor in October 2007. Currently he has projects in cavity optomechanics using nanoparticles levitated in vacuum and larger microscale clamped systems based on whispering gallery mode resonators for studying fundamental quantum mechanics and for development of sensors. (source: University College London)