Prof. Dr. Birgit Stiller

since 2024
W3 Full Professorship at Leibniz University Hannover

04/2019
Independent Max Planck Research Group Leader (centrally funded, selected in the competitive call 2017), Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany, Quantum Optoacoustic

04/2021- 09/2022
Temporary W3 Full Professorship (Lehrstuhlvertretung), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Chair of Optics

06/2015 – 02/2019
Research fellow, The University of Sydney, CUDOS, Australia, Nonlinear Optical Phononics (Prof. Benjamin Eggleton)

10/2012 – 05/2015
Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany, Optical Communication and Quantum Communication (Prof. Gerd Leuchs)

02/2012 – 09/2012
Postdoctoral fellow, CNRS Institute FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France, Nonlinear Optics and Optoacoustics (Dr. Thibaut Sylvestre)

01/2009 – 01/2012
Doctoral thesis, CNRS Institute FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France, “Brillouin scattering in photonic crystal fibre: from fundamentals to fibre optic sensors”, (Dr. Thibaut Sylvestre, Dr. Hervé Maillotte)

10/2003 – 12/2008
Master’s degree Mathematics / Physics / Education, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, Master thesis: „Fabrication of periodically poled LiNbO3 for nonlinear optical frequency conversion by quasi phase matching“ (Prof. Jan-Peter Meyn, Prof. Christine Silberhorn)

2024
ERC Consolidator Grant, 2024

2024
Photonics100 2025 List

2024
Sub-Topic Chair, Photonics Europe, Nonlinear Optics and its applications,  Strasbourg, France, April 2024

2024
Henriette Hertz Scout of the Humbold Foundation

2022
Conference chair, Lorentz Workshop “Quantum Optics meets Acoustics”, Leiden, Netherlands (14-18 November 2021)

2020
Editorial board New Journal of Physics

2020
Fellow of the Max Planck School of Photonics

2019-2021
Conference chair, “Workshop on Optomechanics and Brillouin scattering - WOMBAT 2021/2022”, Erlangen, Germany (16-18 June 2021 and 14-17 June 2022)

2019
Conference chair, “Workshop on Optomechanics and Brillouin scattering - WOMBAT 2021”, Erlangen, Germany (planned for 16-18 June 2021)

2019
Guest editor for APL Photonics for the Topical Issue “Optoacoustics - Advances in High-Frequency Optomechanics and Brillouin Scattering”

2018
Conference chair, “Nanophotonics 2018 – the next frontier”, Canberra, Australia

2016
Conference chair, “Quantum photonic connections conference”, Sydney, Australia

2013 – 2015
Cusanuswerk career development program

2011
Prix A’Doc 2011 of the Université Franche-Comté

2009 – 2011
CNRS PhD Scholarship

2009
Ohm-Preis 2008/2009 of the Physics department at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

2004 – 2008
Scholarship Cusanuswerk