Amsterdam – A suspected Russian spy who was working as a scientist at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, was sacked without notice in 2014, the university said on Wednesday.
The Dutch secret service informed the university after receiving a tip-off from its German counterpart that the man, identified as Ivan A, was a security risk.
The General Intelligence and Security Service said after the Foreign Office cancelled the man’s visa, he was deported back to Russia.
The university said Ivan A’s areas of expertise were quantum optics and nanophotonics, fields that look at light and its interactions with subatomic particles with possible applications in super-fast computing.
German authorities became aware of the man during observations of a Russian diplomat, Der Spiegel.
Spiegel said that he had carried out research at the Max Planck Institute in Erlangen, Germany, from 2009 to 2011.
He was questioned in July 2014 in Dusseldorf about the reports, which he denied. (dpa/NAN)