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Axel Kuhn is an Associate Professor and Reader in Physics at the University of Oxford's Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, and a Fellow and Tutor in Physics at Christ Church. He holds a Dipl. Phys. from the University of Kaiserslautern (1990), a Dr. rer. nat. from the same institution (1995), and a Habilitation from the Technical University of Munich (2005). His career includes a postdoctoral position as a research assistant with Professor Cohen-Tannoudji at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (1995–1998), supported by a Feodor-Lynen fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He then joined Professor Rempe's team at the University of Konstanz (1998), moved with the team to the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching (1999), and qualified as a university professor at TU München (2005) before joining Oxford as a lecturer in experimental physics (2006).
Kuhn leads the Atom-Photon Connection group, focusing on the ultimate control of atom-photon interactions at the single-atom and single-photon level. His research exploits quantum mechanics for optical trapping and manipulation of single atoms, interfacing atoms and photons in microcavities, single-photon quantum memories, individual addressing schemes, and extended cluster states for quantum simulation and one-way quantum computing in scalable quantum networks. Key publications include 'Cavity-Based Single-Photon Sources' (2010), 'Polarization Oscillations in Birefringent Emitter-Cavity Systems' (2019), 'How to Administer an Antidote to Schrödinger's Cat' (2022), and recent works such as 'Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Control under Physical Constraints' (2025) and 'Supercharging Single-Atom Traps by Collisional Blockade' (2025). His contributions advance quantum information physics, with involvement in initiatives like the Networked Quantum Information Technologies (NQIT) hub and the Oxford Quantum Institute.
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