He obtained his PhD from University of Innsbruck (Supervisor: Prof. P. Zoller) in 2007. He joined IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2010 after postdoctoral positions in ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge. From 2013, he works at Vienna University of Technology. His main interests inclide: implementation of quantum information processing schemes in AMO, solid-state and hybrid quantum systems; cooling, state preparation and quantum measurement schemes; theory of open quantum systems, decoherence and noise evasion schemes; quantum control and applications of opto- and nanomechanical systems; and other related. Selected publications: PRL 113, 023603 (2014); PRL 112, 190402 (2014); PRL109, 013603 (2012); PRL 107, 063601 (2011); Nature Phys. 6, 602 (2010).