Welcome, Andrea! Andrea is a master's student from the university of Padua and joins the QCosmo team for his master thesis. He will work on investigating Bayesian state estimation and  experimental design for measuring and controlling the rotational state distribution in molecules.

Congratulations, Lukas! Thesis title: Towards Scalability of Quantum Processors

Welcome, Giorgio! Giorgio is a master student from the University of Pisa. For his Master's thesis he will be designing and developing a new addressing setup for long strings with up to 100 ions in the quantum simulation experiment at IQOQI.

Welcome, Michi! Michi is a master student at the University of Innsbruck and will support the cryo team as part of his master thesis. He will focus on the integration of optical components into our next generation of surface ion traps. As part of his master thesis, Michi will develop and construct an experimental setup to test and qualify the manufactured photonic components.

Congratulations, Leni!

Thesis Titled: Quantum correlations of large planar ion crystals in a novel monolithic radiofrequency trap

Welcome, Michael! He studied theoretical physics at the University of Bologna and is currently a PhD student in the Cryo team, where  he is involved in the Millenion project, which is dedicated to advancing trapped-ion quantum computers and transitioning them from lab prototypes to scalable, industry-grade quantum technologies.

Welcome Nele! Nele is a master’s student from Heidelberg who joined the 2D crystals team for her master’s project. She will investigate the realization of entangling operations with a 532nm laser.

Welcome, Eric! Eric received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary in Canada, studying segmentation/classification algorithms for Polarimetric Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolInSAR). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, with his doctoral thesis focusing on the development of a framework for optimal control of quantum noiseless subsystems. Eric has joined the CryoTrap team in Innsbruck looking to study control/optimization problems in ion shuttling for 2D arrays of ion traps.

Welcome, Marcel! Marcel earned his master’s degree from RWTH Aachen University, where he conducted his thesis project on quantum computing with quantum dot spin qubits in GaAs/AlGaAs. He then pursued a PhD at QuTech, Technical University of Delft. There he focused on spin qubits in Si/SiGe and Ge/SiGe. Specifically, Marcel investigated the electrical control of uniformity in quantum dot devices and two-dimensional quantum dot arrays. This September, he joined the Quantum Information Processing team as a postdoctoral researcher where he will work on the AQTION experiment.