Welcome Tim! Tim received his bachelor and master degrees at the TU Darmstadt in Germany. He wrote his bachelor’s thesis about solving QUBOs with a D-Wave superconducting quantum annealer in the group of Gernot Alber. He did his Masters with Gerhard Birkl where he focused on the scaling of optical tweezer arrays for neutral Rb-85 atoms beyond the milestone of 10000 dipole traps. He has now turned to ions and joined the QUDITS team to investigate the benefits of a richer Hilbert space for quantum computing.