Tobias Heindel is head of the group Quantum Communication Systems affiliated with the Institute of Solid State Physics at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.  Dr. Heindel received his PhD from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany, in 2014. He had several research visits at renowned national and international research institutes, including the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University Munich and the Technion in Haifa, Israel.

Dr. Heindel’s present research focuses on topics at the intersection of the fields of solid-state quantum optics and quantum information with the aim to realize building blocks for quantum communication and future distributed quantum networks. He authored or co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, three book chapters, and one patent (h-index 37). He received a ”Quantum Future” Junior Research Group Grant (3.1 M€ budget) form the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in 2018 and the Karl-Scheel-Prize of the Physical Society in Berlin in 2020. He is initiator and organizer of the open-science and outreach project ”QuanTour – A quantum emitter’s journey through Europe”, which combines open science with science communication under the umbrella of the German Physical Society (DPG).