Dr. Birgit Stiller is a full professor at Leibniz University Hannover, and also leads the Quantum Optoacoustics Group at Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light. From 2015 to 2019 she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sydney (Prof. Benjamin Eggleton), working on integrated photonic circuits. Before this, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the field of quantum communications: Quantum key distribution and quantum hacking at MPL (Prof. Gerd Leuchs). She holds a Ph.D. from the CNRS Institute FEMTO-ST and the University of Franche-Comte in Besancon, France, where she helped pioneer Brillouin scattering within photonic crystal fibers (Dr. Thibaut Sylvestre, Dr. Jean-Charles Beugnot). Stiller is on Laser Focus World’s
editorial board.