Tanja Mehlstäubler

Tanja Mehlstäubler is a physicist specializing in the field of quantum optical clocks and ion trap based quantum technologies. She is known to be the world leading expert in precision optical spectroscopy , and is a full time professor at the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. She is also a guest faculty at Osaka University, Japan. Mehlstäubler heads a Quantum Clocks and Complex Systems research group at the QUEST Institute for Experimental Quantum Metrology at PTB, Braunshweig. She is involved in developing the high-precision scalable and integrated ion traps for enabling 3D optical access for coherent laser manipulation and clock interrogation.

Tanja Mehlstäubler received her PhD with summa cum laude, in the year 2005, from the University of Hannover. She worked on thesis titled 'Novel Cooling Methods for an Optical Frequency Standard based on Mg Atoms'. A part of her graduate studies was completed at the State University of New York as she was the recipient of the prestigious Fullbright grant.