- Germany
- Research organisation
- Braunschweig, Germany
- EU projects: sensing 8, computing and simulation 1 (some areas are keyword suggestions pending review)
Fact sheet
- Type
- Government, Facility ROR, retrieved 21 October 2026
- Country and city
- Germany CORDIS (portal record), retrieved 18 October 2026Brunswick Wikidata, retrieved 21 October 2026
- Founded
- 1887 Wikidata, retrieved 21 October 2026
- Employees
- 2,100 (as of 2024-06-16) Wikidata, retrieved 22 October 2026
- Identifiers
- ROR 05r3f7h03 ROR, retrieved 21 October 2026Wikidata Q470438 Wikidata, retrieved 21 October 2026
- EU and national projects
- 14 projects in this catalogue CORDIS, Funding & Tenders Portal, national funders
- Not yet known from our sources
- Revenue and capital, Patents
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Organisation profile
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Identity
"Registered" is what the organisation reported to the Global LEI System; "stated" is what an open registry names. The two can differ.
- Parent as stated by ROR
- Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie
Sources: ROR (CC0), retrieved 21 October 2026.
Logo (top of the page): Pressestelle PTB, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
EU projects and funding
9 EU-funded quantum projects in CORDIS name this organisation as a participant (start years 2016 to 2025).
Net EU contribution to this organisation: EUR 4,508,212. The sum of its own net EU contribution in each of these projects, as CORDIS records it per participant.
Projects by technology pillar
- Quantum sensing and metrology: 8
- Enabling technologies and supply chain: 1
Follow the money: all awards by programme and country
Source: CORDIS (European Commission), snapshot retrieved 2026-10-16, reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents; stored 2 November 2026.
Publications and preprints
Preprint radar
1 quantum preprint on arXiv in the last 30 days names this organisation among its institutions.
Source: arXiv quant-ph listings with OpenAlex institutions (metadata CC0), stored 2 November 2026.
Courses, infrastructure and standards
Quantum infrastructure hosted or coordinated
Sources: infrastructure catalogue compiled 2026-10-27. Linked by the name of the organisation (its portal title or its ROR name); a link can be missed when a source spells the name differently.
Technology families and SRIA goals
Source: the shared quantum technology taxonomy of the portal, assignments confirmed by an editor; profile stored 2 November 2026.
Related goals of the draft SRIA 2026
6 goals of the draft SRIA 2026 concern these technologies; the first 6 are listed.
- Goal greatest impact by 2035: Positioning, navigation and timing without satellite navigation is ranked first by impact, ahead of biology and medicine, sensing and testing, exploration and electromagnetic spectrum operations.
- Milestone 2030 KPI: At least 15 operational use cases across navigation, geophysics, defence and infrastructure.
- Milestone 2027 review milestone: A dependency map across computing, communication and sensing validated by at least ten European system developers with SME representation; an operational monitoring function; documented KPI baselines and first benchmarks.
- Milestone 2030 review milestone: An EU-designed quantum control chipset at TRL 5.
- Goal by 2035: Europe is a leading location for industrialising quantum chips and hardware building blocks, moving from fragmented research fabrication to repeatable, accessible and trusted manufacturing.
- Milestone gate criteria 2030: Standardised procedures, an initial building-block catalogue, validated PDK and QPDK flows used by external users, and benchmarking below full-stack level.
Source: draft Strategic Research and Industry Agenda 2026 (Quantum Flagship, draft for consultation, 2026-09-19), checked 2026-10-24. Related by technology family only, not by anything this organisation said.
People in quantum at this organisation
Researchers whose latest quantum works name this organisation (OpenAlex). Professional information only. About this directory
- E. Peik (22 quantum works since 2022)
- Christian Lisdat (20 quantum works since 2022)
- Tilmann H. Sander (16 quantum works since 2022)
- Sören Dörscher (14 quantum works since 2022)
- Erik Benkler (13 quantum works since 2022)
- Uwe Sterr (12 quantum works since 2022)
- Nils Huntemann (11 quantum works since 2022)
- Alexander Kühl (9 quantum works since 2022)
- J. Klose (9 quantum works since 2022)
- Jochen Kronjäger (9 quantum works since 2022)
Capabilities on public record
From the supplier directory: each capability with its strongest evidence. A contract, a documented product, a product line or software shows supply; an EU-funded project or a confirmed technology area shows research activity. Not an endorsement or a qualification.
- Josephson parametric amplifiers (Superconducting circuits) EU-funded project naming the capability
- Quantum sensors and atomic clocks EU-funded project naming the capability
- Atomic and optical clocks Technology area confirmed by an editor
- Colour-centre sensors Technology area confirmed by an editor
- Control electronics Technology area confirmed by an editor
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt is listed in 9 project(s) in this CORDIS quantum-related snapshot. Recorded net EU contribution across these projects: EUR 4,508,212. Coverage is limited to the imported dataset; participation is not a verified quantum technology capability.
Source: CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (CORDIS). Retrieved 2026-10-16. Licence: European Commission reuse notice (Decision 2011/833/EU). Selected administrative metadata, adapted presentation. No endorsement by the source is implied. Organisation-level data only. Licence: European Commission reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU).
Source: cordis.europa.eu · checked 16 Oct 2026