Alexander Streltsov

Group Leader / Associate Professor

Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Alexander Streltsov leads the Quantum Information and Resources Group at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences. His research is in quantum information theory, with a particular focus on quantum resource theories and their applications in quantum communication and information processing.

Academic profile

2024–present: Associate Professor, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences.
2018–2024: Research Assistant Professor, Quantum Resources and Information Laboratory, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw.
2013–2018: Postdoctoral positions and fellowships at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, ICFO, Freie Universität Berlin, and Gdańsk University of Technology.
2021: Habilitation in Physical Sciences, University of Warsaw, awarded with distinction.
2013: Doctor of Natural Science, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, summa cum laude.

Selected publications

Colloquium: Quantum coherence as a resource

A. Streltsov, G. Adesso, M. B. Plenio

Rev. Mod. Phys. 89, 041003 (2017)
Towards Resource Theory of Coherence in Distributed Scenarios

A. Streltsov, S. Rana, M. N. Bera, M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. X 7, 011024 (2017)
Measuring Quantum Coherence with Entanglement

A. Streltsov, U. Singh, H. S. Dhar, M. N. Bera, G. Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 020403 (2015)
Assisted Distillation of Quantum Coherence

E. Chitambar, A. Streltsov, S. Rana, M. N. Bera, G. Adesso, M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070402 (2016)
Quantum Discord Cannot Be Shared

A. Streltsov, W. H. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 040401 (2013), highlighted as Editor's Suggestion

Grants, awards, and service

Principal investigator of OPUS-28 and SONATA BIS 12 projects, both funded by the National Science Centre, Poland.
Coordinator of the QuantERA project ExTRaQT: Experiment and Theory of Resources in Quantum Technologies, and principal investigator of the Warsaw unit.
Principal investigator of a First Team Grant of the Foundation for Polish Science.
Recipient of Polonez and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowships.
Awards include the 2025 Award of the Director of the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, the 2021 Rector's Award of the University of Warsaw, the 2020 Stipend for Outstanding Young Scientists awarded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland, the 2014 Award for the best dissertation in the AMOP section of the German Physical Society, and the 2014 Award for the best dissertation from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.