Stock Photo - 21 December 2021, Bavaria, Garching: Hubert Aiwanger, Minister of Economic Affairs and State Chairman of the Free Voters in Bavaria (M), stands between Claudia Eckert (l), Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC), and Florian Marquardt, Head of the Theory Department of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Light, after handing over funding notifications at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs Aiwanger (Free Voters) visits the institute on the occasion of the handover of notifications for quantum technology research to the Max Planck and Fraunhofer institutes involved in the Munich Quantum Valley (MQV). Photo: Matthias Balk/dpa. - Garching/Bavaria/Germany