This project is a joint venture between the Quantum Nanobiology Team (QNB) of Alipasha Vaziri and the Quantum Nanophysics Team (QNP) of Markus Arndt.It was selected by the University of Vienna to enable high-risk/high-gain research in the largely unexplored and interdisciplinary scientific territory between the two fields.

PROBIOTIQUS aims at

Processing biomolecular targets for interferometric quantum experiments. 

We develop new source, detector and quantum control methods for the exploration

of quantum coherence physics at the interface to the life sciences and for quantum interference enhanced physical chemistry of biomolecules.

PI: Markus Arndt

NANOQUESTFIT will prepare nanoparticles in highly non-classical quantum states and utilize them to test the linearity of quantum physics over mesoscopic distances and time scales in a mass range that has remained hitherto unexplored. This goal will be realized in an interdisciplinary effort of European experts in quantum optics, nanotechnology, chemistry, and cluster physics. NANOQUESTFIT lays the scientific ground for a better understanding of practical and fundamental limits of future quantum technologies and will generate the basis for new quantum-enhanced sensing devices with matter waves composed of atoms, molecules and nanoparticles. PI and Coordinator: Markus Arndt

The Vienna Doctoral Program on Complex Quantum Systems (CoQuS) selects annually students from an international pool of applicants, based on their academic excellence, scientific success and ambition. The programme is supported by the Austrian Science Funds FWF, the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology.

Speaker: Markus Arndt (Uni Vienna), since 2007 - 2013

Vice-Speaker: Jörg Schmiedmayer (TU Vienna) since 2007 -  2013

In 2008 Markus Arndt received the Wittgenstein Award of the Ministry of Science and the Austrian Science Funds FWF for his research in Quantum Nanophysics. The programme runs for five years .

In 2001 Markus Arndt received the START Award of the Ministry of Science and the Austrian Science Funds FWF for his research on molecule interferometry.  Run time: 3 + 3 years.