He holds a PhD in Physics from 1981 from the University of Mainz. He has been doing Research in USA and in Germany, He is living in Innsbruck since 1995. Blatt works on trapped ions for quantum computers, quantum simulations and quantum metrology. He is Research director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) Innsbruck, Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), and co-founder of Alpine Quantum Technologies GmbH (AQT) in Innsbruck.