Nora Tischler is a quantum physicist, specialising in optical quantum information science. She earned her PhD at Macquarie University (2016) and the University of Vienna (2017), working with Gabriel Molina-Terriza and Anton Zeilinger. In 2016, she joined QOIL at Griffith University’s Centre for Quantum Dynamics as a postdoctoral researcher and was awarded a Griffith University Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2019-2020. In 2021, she moved to Germany with a Humboldt Postdoctocal Research Fellowship to work in Jens Eisert’s group at the Freie Univesitӓt Berlin. She returned to Australia in 2022 on an ARC DECRA, and is now a research group leader at Griffith University and a program manager in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology.
Nora’s research is broadly centred on the questions how quantum physics fundamentally differs from the classical realm and how these differences can be harnessed for technologies of the future. One of her key research themes concerns quantum correlations and non-locality. This includes the development of techniques to efficiently generate high-quality quantum states of light, and the fundamental implications of quantum correlations and their utility for quantum information tasks. Some of the highlights of Nora’s research contributions to date have been the first rigorous demonstration of one-way quantum steering, pioneering experiments that established a quantum memory advantage in stochastic process modelling, and a no-go result that is stronger than Bell’s theorem.