A short biography is as follows:

Janis Nötzel studied physics at the TU Berlin and received his doctorate from the TU Munich in 2012 with his dissertation "Quantum Communication under Channel Uncertainty". He was a DFG scholarship holder at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and as head of an EXIST research transfer at the TU Dresden. In December 2018, he moved to TU Munich as head of the DFG's first Emmy Noether Group in the field of electrical engineering for quantum technologies. There, he is developing technical and mathematical concepts as well as software tools for integrating quantum communication technologies into conventional communication networks.