Professor of Experimental Physics at Leibniz Universität Hannover, group leader of the “Quantum Control” group
Michèle Heurs is a professor of experimental physics at Leibniz Universität Hannover and leader of the group “Quantum Control”, working on interferometric gravitational wave detection and quantum technologies. She is a council member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC). She is dean of QUEST Leibniz Forschungsschule, an interdisciplinary faculty at LUH, and principal investigator in two Centres of Excellence, PhoenixD and QuantumFrontiers, as well as one of the proponents of the German Centre for Astrophysics (Deutsches Zentrum für Astrophysik, DZA).
Her research interests are non-classical light sources („squeezed light“), quantum radiation pressure noise reduction techniques, quantum optomechanics, precision metrology, novel laser stabilisation techniques, metamaterials, as well as high-bandwidth high-efficiency photodetection and controls, and lately also some machine learning.