EU-Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society MA Mariya Gabriel was welcomed by Univ.Prof. Dipl.Ing. Dr. Dr.h.c. Heinz Engl (Rector of the University of Vienna) and emer. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Anton Zeilinger (President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) at the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna.

After a short introduction by the respective researchers Prof. Philip Walther (Head of the Quantum Group), Dr. Thomas Monz and Dr. Rupert Ursin, Mariya Gabriel also visited the Quantum Photonics Chip for Secure Quantum Computing at the Quantum Computer Laboratory for Cyber Security (University of Vienna) and the Telescope for Satellite Based Quantum Communication (IQOQI) on the roof of the institute.