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Dirk Bouwmeester obtained his PhD in 1995 from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. His PhD thesis dealt with experimental and theoretical research related to analog simulations of quantum-mechanical models using classical optics. With the support of a NWO (Dutch Physical Society) Talent stipend he became a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. R. Penrose at the Mathematical Institute in Oxford where he studied special "twisted" solutions of Maxwell's equations. From 1997 to 1999 D. Bouwmeester was a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. A. Zeilinger at the University of Innsbruck where he performed the first demonstration experiments of quantum teleportation and three-particle (GHZ) entanglement. From 1999 to 2001 he established a research group at the University of Oxford at the Centre for Quantum Computation directed by Prof. A. Ekert. There he performed first demonstrations of optimal quantum cloning of photon states and of stimulated emission of entangled photons. Since 2001 Bouwmeester holds a faculty position at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) where he initiated several new projects at the interface of physics, engineering, and biology. The topics are solid-state cavity Quantum Electro Dynamics, knotted-states of light, optical cooling and quantum states of micromechanical systems, and DNA-templated optical emitters. The research topics strongly profit from the strong nanoscience and engineering facilities at UCSB. Since 2007 Bouwmeester holds also a part-time position at the University of Leiden which provides his research group with the unique opportunity to design and build state-of-the-art low temperature and high precision equipment. This research is strongly supported by a Marie Curie Excellence research award from the EU.


	Dirk Bouwmeester

	Dirk Bouwmeester obtained his PhD in 1995 from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. His PhD thesis dealt with experimental and theoretical research related to analog simulations of quantum-mechanical models using classical optics. With the support of a NWO (Dutch Physical Society) Talent stipend he became a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. R. Penrose at the Mathematical Institute in Oxford where he studied special "twisted" solutions of Maxwell's equations. From 1997 to 1999 D. Bouwmeester was a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. A. Zeilinger at the University of Innsbruck where he performed the first demonstration experiments of quantum teleportation and three-particle (GHZ) entanglement. From 1999 to 2001 he established a research group at the University of Oxford at the Centre for Quantum Computation directed by Prof. A. Ekert. There he performed first demonstrations of optimal quantum cloning of photon states and of stimulated emission of entangled photons. Since 2001 Bouwmeester holds a faculty position at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) where he initiated several new projects at the interface of physics, engineering, and biology. The topics are solid-state cavity Quantum Electro Dynamics, knotted-states of light, optical cooling and quantum states of micromechanical systems, and DNA-templated optical emitters. The research topics strongly profit from the strong nanoscience and engineering facilities at UCSB. Since 2007 Bouwmeester holds also a part-time position at the University of Leiden which provides his research group with the unique opportunity to design and build state-of-the-art low temperature and high precision equipment. This research is strongly supported by a Marie Curie Excellence research award from the EU.

	Five key publications:

	D. Bouwmeester, J-W. Pan, K. Mattle, M. Eible, H. Weinfurter, and A. Zeilinger Experimental quantum teleportation, Nature (London) 390, 575 (1997) [reprinted in the Centennial edition of Nature]

	A. Lamas-Linares, C. Simon, J.C. Howell, D. Bouwmeester Experimental Quantum Cloning of Single Photons Science, 296, 712, (2002)

	Dustin Kleckner, Dirk Bouwmeester Sub-kelvin optical cooling of a micromechanical resonator Nature 444, 75-78 (2006)

	S. Strauf, M. Rakher, N. G. Stoltz, P. M. Petroff, L. A. Coldren, and D. Bouwmeester High Frequency Single Photon Source with Polarization Control Nature Photonics 1, 704 (2007)

	William T. M. Irvine and Dirk Bouwmeester Linked and knotted beams of light Nature Physics 4, 716 (2008)

	Selected Awards and Honours:

	NWO Talent Stipend, 1996

	Wolfson College Research Fellow, Oxford, 2001

	Co-recipient EU Descartes prize, 2004

	Huygens lecturer, 2005

	EU Marie Curie Excellence Award, 2006