The Austrian Science Fund’s Cluster of Excellence for Quantum Sciences officially launched in Innsbruck on Thursday. As part of the Excellence Initiative, the Clusters of Excellence are Austrian flagship projects in conducting base-knowledge research. Quantum Science Austria (quantA) brings over 60 research groups together in Innsbruck, Vienna, Linz, and Klosterneuburg in an effort to strengthen Austria's leading position in quantum science in the long term.

The excellence initiative, Cluster of Excellence Quantum Science Austria (quantA), will continue driving pioneering research in the field of quantum science forward. Based on successful advances over the past decades, scholars and researchers at the JKU, the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna, the TU Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) will conduct groundbreaking research into the quantum foundations of space, time and gravity, new paradigms of quantum information, and the physics of constructed quantum many-particle systems.

Martin Polaschek, Austrian Federal Minister of Education, Science & Research, remarked: "The Austrian Science Fund excellence cluster initiative, Quantum Science Austria, clearly underscores our commitment to supporting excellence in research. The partnership of over 60 research groups will ensure that this research cluster becomes an international flagship to support outstanding research in Austria, in one of tomorrow's key technologies. We must, however, also put these findings into practice, which is why I welcome anchoring knowledge transfer as one of the Cluster of Excellences’ important cornerstones."

Twelve Research Projects to be Launched
Innsbruck, Vienna, Linz, and Klosterneuburg, will be exploring innovative questions, each requiring a combination of the unique expertise available in Austria. The JKU section is headed by Prof. Armando Rastelli (Institute of Semiconductor and Solid-State Physics).

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