Andreas Poppe studied Telecommunication Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. There he received his Ph.D. degree at the Photonics Institute in 2000 supervised by Prof. Ferencz Krausz for researching on femtosecond lasers and frequency combs. Afterwards he commercialized his research results at the spin-off SME-company Femtolasers GmbH. In 2002 he joined the quantum cryptography project at the Institute of Experimental Physics (University of Vienna) headed by Prof. Anton Zeilinger, where he designed an entangled QKD-system, included in the QKD-network demonstration of the European project SECOQC. Between 2008 and 2015 Andreas was senior scientist at the Optical Quantum Technologies group of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, where he was the leader of the QKD systems development team. In 2015 he moved to the Optical and Quantum Communications Laboratory at the Munich Research Center of Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH as a senior expert leading technical developments of a novel CV-QKD system. Late 2019 he returned to AIT to participate to the co-ordination team of the EU testbed project OpenQKD to prepare future QKD deployment.