Anna Musiał

Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Dr Anna Musiał is a research fellow in the Laboratory for Optical Spectroscopy of Nanostructures and a lecturer at Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST), Poland. She got a PhD degree in Physics in 2013 at WUST for the thesis entitled "Optical properties of elongated nanostructures in III-V semiconductors" prepared under the supervision of prof. Misiewicz (WUST) and prof. Forchel (University of Würzburg, Germany). After that, she worked as a postdoc in a group of prof. Reitzenstein- Optoelectronic and Quantum Devices at Technical University of Berlin (2014-2017), where she realized Polish MNiSW-funded project High-Quality Deterministic Single Quantum Dot-Based Light Sources for Quantum Communication Technology within a Mobility Plus program. Afterward, she came back to Wrocław and continued her research on quantum dot-based indistinguishable and entangled photon sources at telecom wavelengths (project QuanTel granted within a HOMING program by FNP) and development of plug&play fiber-coupled semiconductor single-photon source for secure quantum-communication in the 1.3 mm range (https://doi.org/10.1002/qute.202000018).

Currently she is coordinating an EU project Fibre-Coupled GaSb Quantum Dot Tuneable Single-Photon Sources for Field Deployed Quantum Key Distribution – Department of Experimental Physics, being involved in two others (QuantERA: EQUAISE - Welcome to EQUAISE website and EIC Pathfinder project).

Her research interests include: optical properties and electronic structure of semiconductor nanostructures emitting at telecom wavelengths and their applications in optoelectronics and non-classical light sources for quantum communication and cryptography, engineering of polarisation properties of emission from epitaxial nanostructures of various geometries, localization and decoherence effects in epitaxial quantum dots, light-matter coupling and quantum electrodynamics effects as well as micro- and nanolasers. She co-authored over 40 scientific publications which has been cited more than 1000 times. Since 2012 she is active in Polish Physical Society and since 2015 she is a member of German Physical Society.