Rate My Professor Borivoje Dakic

Borivoje Dakić is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, heading the Dakić Group focused on operational quantum information. He obtained his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Belgrade in 2004, M.Sc. in Physics from the same university in 2007, and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Vienna in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Časlav Brukner. His career encompasses postdoctoral research at the University of Vienna (2012–2013), Research Fellow at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore (2013–2014), Academic Visitor at the Department of Physics, University of Oxford (2013–2014), and Senior Postdoc at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences (2014–2018). Appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna in 2018, he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023. He holds leadership positions as Speaker of the Vienna Centre for Quantum Technologies since 2022, Vice-Speaker of the Quantum Group at the University of Vienna since 2022, and CEO of QUBO Technology GmbH since 2023. Dakić also serves as Visiting Professor at the University of Gdansk, Poland since 2024.

Dakić's research centers on quantum information theory, quantum foundations, and applied quantum information, including operational reconstruction of quantum theory, foundations of quantum interference and communication, tomography and verification of large-scale quantum systems, and macroscopic quantum theory. His publications have received over 4,800 citations. Key works include "Experimental Boson Sampling" in Nature Photonics (2013), "Single-copy entanglement detection" in npj Quantum Information (2018), "Experimental few-copy multi-particle entanglement detection" in Nature Physics (2019), "Coherence Equality and Communication in Quantum Superposition" in Physical Review Letters (2020), "Macroscopically nonlocal quantum correlations" in Physical Review Letters (2021), and "Sample-efficient device-independent quantum state verification and certification" in PRX Quantum (2022). Awards include the Teaching Award from the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna (2022) and election as member of the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) (2016). As Principal Investigator, he has led funded projects such as BeyondC (I and II) and Information-theoretic foundations from the Austrian Science Fund. He edits for Quantum journal since 2022 and referees for journals including PNAS, Nature Photonics, and Physical Review Letters.