Carsten Schuck is a Professor for Experimental Physics and the Director of the Department for Quantum Technology at the University of Münster, where he leads the Integrated Quantum Technology group. He studied Physics in Hamburg, Uppsala and Munich and obtained a PhD in Applied Physics from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 2010 for work at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences (Spain). After a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University and work for ASML Research he became an Assistant Professor in Münster in 2016 and Full Professor in 2021. His research activities are carried out at the Center for Soft Nanoscience (SoN) and the Center for NanoTechnology (CeNTech), where he also acts as scientific director of the Münster Nanofabrication Facility (MNF). He is the co-founder of Pixel Photonics, a start-up company that commercializes superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors.