Serge holds the following academic qualifications:
PhD (with highest honors), Université Libre de Bruxelles , Belgium, 1995
BSc (with highest honors), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 1991.

Born in 1970, Serge spent most of his youth in Africa. After getting physics degree in 1991 with highest honor, he began research in theoretical physics. He specifically studied black hole evaporation and related questions dealing with particle creation in external fields. He defended his PhD in 1995 with highest honours (La Plus Grande Distinction).

From 1995 to 1997 he was a post-doctoral researcher at Tel Aviv University in Israel and from 1997 to 1998 at Utrecht University in Netherlands. During this period he got increasingly involved in the nascent field of quantum information. In 1998 he went back to the Université Libre de Bruxelles as a Research Associate of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), and since 2003 he is a Senior Research Associate of the FNRS. In 2003 he was awarded the Alcatel-Bell prize of the FNRS for his research on experimental quantum information processing. Since 2004 he has directed the Laboratoire d’Information Quantique, which is one of the three groups which constitute the “Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Optique et d’Information Quantique”. His main research topics nowadays are quantum information sciences, both from the point of view of theory and from the point of view of implementations in quantum optics. He has participated in several European projects in quantum informati, including one (RESQ) as coordinator. He has co-authored 70 publications in leading physics journals.

Research interests

During his thesis Dr. Massar mainly worked on black hole radiation, but he gradually got interested in the emerging field of quantum information, and this later became his main centre of interest. He has worked on many aspects of quantum information, including quantum measurements, quantum cloning, quantum error correction, quantum non locality, quantum computers, and quantum optics. Initially his interests were on the theoretical aspects of quantum information, but since 2002 he has directed, within the “Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Optique et d’Information Quantique” of the ULB, an experimental group which explores how the promises of quantum information can be realised in quantum optics. In this context he has realized the first experimental demonstration of error filtration (a method for detecting errors in quantum communication) and the first experimental demonstration of quantum string flipping (a novel protocol in quantum cryptography).