Centre for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research
The Cluster of Excellence QUEST has been supported by the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments since November 2007. The main research areas of the cluster are quantum engineering and space-time research. Six institutes of Leibniz Universität Hannover and the following external partners are involved: the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) with the gravitational wave detector GEO 600, the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Braunschweig and the Centre of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity in Bremen.