Name:

Tobias Huber-Loyola

Position:

Tenure-Track Professor

With this Institute since:

September 1, 2025

Curiculum Vitae:

Tobias Huber-Loyola is a professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ) since 2025. He received the Master (MSc) and PhD degree in physics from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. From 2016 to 2018, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Joint Quantum Institute of the University of Maryland, College Park, USA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA. From 2018 to 2025, he was leading the quantum dots group at the Chair of Technische Phyik at the University of Würzburg, where he received funding from the German Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) to run an independent quantum futur young research group in 2022.

Honors:

• Baldwin and Inge Knauf Award for Excellent Scientific Achievement, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg (2025)
• Funding in the Quantum Futur early-career competition of the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) (2022)
• Seed funding from the Physics Frontier Center of the National Science Foundation at the University of Maryland (2018)
• Anton Paar Physics Prize – Award of the Solid-State Physics Division of the Austrian Physical Society (ÖPG) for an outstanding doctoral thesis in solid-state physics (2017)
• JQI Postdoctoral Fellowship – awarded annually by the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) to an exceptional experimental physicist, University of Maryland, College Park & NIST, Gaithersburg, USA (2016 – 2018)
• DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) (2014-2016)
• Canada Prize for talented young scientists, University of Innsbruck (2014)

Research:

Nanophotonic devices

• Nanophotonic cavities for single emitter integration
• Deterministic device placement
• Novel cavity designs
• Quantum emitter engineering
• III-V-semiconductor technology

Quantum technologies

• Spin-photon entangled systems
• Multi-photon entangled states
• Towards quantum computing and quantum network applications