INSPIRE Potentials Fellows

Ludovica Asselta holds a Bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering, and is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in the same subject at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. She is conducting her Master’s project in the Science of Quantum and Information Technology Department at IBM Research – Zurich, working with the cryogenic electronics team led by Dr. Cezar Zeta.

Dominique Wanningen holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics and in Applied Mathematics from the University of Delft. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Quantum Engineering at the ETHZ. She is doing her Master’s thesis in the Nanophysics group of ETH Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Ihn.

Aditi pursues her dual Bachelor-Master’s degree in physics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Mohali, India. She will work on her Master’s thesis in the Hybrid Quantum Circuits Laboratory led by Prof. Scarlino at EPFL.

Atreyee Basu is enrolled in a Bachelor-Master physics dual degree program at the Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Mohali, India. For her Master’s thesis, she will be hosted in the Quantum Theory of Condensed Matter and Quantum Computing group of Prof. Jelena Klinovaja at the University of Basel.

Veronika Rečková earned her Bachelor of Science in Solid State Engineering at the Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic. She is now pursuing her Master's degree in Physics at ETH Zurich focused on Solid State Physics. She will complete her Master's thesis in the Nanophysics group of ETH Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Ihn.

Elisa Zaccaria pursues both her Bachelor in Physical Engineering and her Master’s degree in Electronics for Micro- and Nanosystems at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. She will complete her Master’s thesis in the Science of Quantum and Information Technology Department at IBM Research Zürich, supervised by Dr. Cezar Zota. Her project focuses on cryogenic analog RRAM.

Yiqi Zhao pursues both her Bachelor and her Master’s degrees at the ETHZ. She is pursuing her Master’s thesis in the Quantum Coherence Lab led by Dominik Zumbühl at the University of Basel, working on quantum hall gyrators.

After a Bachelor degree in Physics at the University of Trento, Italy, Elena Acinapura enrols in Master studies in Quantum Engineering at the ETH Zurich. Her Master’s project focuses on fabrication of quantum dots in planar Germanium in the Hybrid Quantum Circuits Laboratory led by Prof. Scarlino at EPFL.

Clara Galante obtained her Bachelor's degree in Physics at the Universidad Autonomy de Madrid, before enrolling for her Master's studies in Physics at ETH Zurich. She will do her Master's thesis in the Nanophysics group of ETH Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Ihn starting in September 2023.

Lea Haas earned her Bachelor of Science in Physics at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Innsbruck, Austria in 2021. She is now pursuing her Master's degree in Physics at ETH Zurich. She will complete her Master's thesis in the Institute for Theoretical Physics at ETH Zurich embedded in the group of Prof. Zilberberg (University of Konstanz), and supervised by Prof. Sigrist. She will start her project on quantification of quantum entanglement in quantum protocols that are subject to dissipation in September 2023.

Nathalie Lehmann pursues both her Bachelor and her Master’s degrees in the Physics department of ETH Zürich. She started her Master's thesis in April 2023 in the Nanophysics group of the ETHZ under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Ensslin. She works on entropy measurement on bilayer graphene quantum dots.

Myriam Rihani graduated with a Bachelor degree in Micro-engineering at EPFL in 2021. She is now pursuing a Master in Micro-engineering (minor in Photonics) at EPFL as well. Her Master’s thesis will deal with control electronics focused on QEC for spin qubits at IBM/PSI supervised by Prof. Kirsten Moselund and Dr. Cezar Zota.

After a Bachelor in Physics at the Faculty of Physics at the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anna Efimova pursues her Master's studies in the Physics Department of ETH Zurich. She started her Master's thesis in January 2023 in the Quantum Device laboratory led by Prof. Wallraff, and supervised by Dr. Simon Storz.

Caroline Tornow obtained her Bachelor's degree in Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, before enrolling for her Master's studies in Quantum Engineering at ETH Zurich. She will perform her Master's thesis in the Quantum Applications Research & Software group at IBM Research Zurich, supervised by Dr. Ivano Tavernelli, Dr. Daniel Egger (IBM Research), and Dr. Joseph Renes (ETH Zurich) starting on the 27.02.2023.

Jessica Richter earned her Bachelor of Science in Physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin in September 2021. She is now pursuing her Master's degree at ETH Zurich. She will do her Master's thesis in the Quantum Technology Group at IBM Research Zurich, supervised by Dr. Andreas Fuhrer and Dr. Matthias Mergenthaler starting on the 01.03.2023. Her research project will tackle hole-spin qubits.

Paula Sánchez Almagro studies at the School of Telecommunication Engineering of the Polytechnical University of Madrid (ETSIT UPM). Starting in July 2022, she will conduct her master’s thesis in the quantum control electronics team led by Dr. Cezar Zota at the IBM Zurich research lab. She will work on the development of a scalable system for optimal control of spin qubits with Dr. Mridula Prathapan as her mentor.

Aleksandra Kukiełka studies at the Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Poland. Her Master’s thesis will be a theoretical investigation of electronic structure and transport properties of topological superconductors with magnetic impurities. She will work in the theory Group of Professor Jelena Klinovaja at the University of Basel.

Linnea Bendrot is a student at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. She started her master’s thesis at IBM Research Zurich in February 2022. Her project in the Material Integration Nanoscale Devices lab is about cryogenic electronics for scalable spin-based quantum computers.

Ekaterina Vlasiuk studies at the ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, Russia. From April 2022, she will conduct her Master thesis in the condensed matter theory & quantum computing group at the University of Basel. Ekaterina Vlasiuk is particularly interested in many-body quantum physics.

Marina Obramenko studies at the ITMO University, Department of physics and Engineering in Saint Petersburg. Starting in June 2022, she will conduct her master’s thesis project on active resonant silicon nanostructures in NIR range in the theory Group of Professor Daniel Loss at the University of Basel.

Lara Ostertag graduated with High Honors from University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s in physics. In Feburary 2022, she will start her Master thesis in Professor Klaus Ensslin's laboratory for Solid State Physics at ETH Zurich, working on transport measurements in germanium nanowires.

Rhea Hoyer is a student at the University of Basel. She has successfully completed her Master’s examination on the topic of spin qubits and will conduct theoretical research in spin physics. She has started in May 2021 and investigates new topics within the area of spin physics in her Master thesis. The subjects include multipolar excitations in spin systems and particle nonconserving processes, that will require the use of more advanced techniques including topology, quantum geometry, and many-body perturbation theory.

Lisa Sommer is a student at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Her primary research interest is quantum computers, in particular controlling single spins in silicon finFET devices. The title of her bachelor thesis was “Single Quantum Dots for nanophotonic integration: Simulation and experimental characterization” Lisa Sommer will start her master thesis project at IBM starting in October 2021.

Asma Chabane is an intern at IBM Research Zurich since February, where she works in Cryogenic Modeling. She is developing a model that will help us understand how low temperature affects electronic devices. She believes that the integration of the control and read-out electronics closer to Qubits can have a major influence on the development of quantum computing.