Claudius Riek studied Physics at the University of Konstanz. From 2011 to 2016 he did his Ph.D. at the chair for ultrafast phenomena and photonics at the University of Konstanz. He worked on the experimental implementation of the Subcycle-Quantum
Electrodynamics. Since 2017 he is working at Zurich Instruments AG as an Application Scientist and contact for Applications in Photonics and Quantum Technologies.