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Dietrich Leibfried

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Dietrich Leibfried is a NIST Fellow and physicist. He joined the Ion Storage Group at NIST in 1996 as a postdoctoral scholar. After three years as an assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria (1998-2000), he returned to NIST in 2001 as co-leader of the group working on quantum information processing, quantum networking and quantum control with trapped ions. Dietrich has published more than 160 peer-reviewed articles. He received his diploma (1991) and Ph.D. (1995) in physics while working on precision laser spectroscopy of hydrogen with Theodor W. Hänsch at the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany.