New Members in the Network
We are excited to present to you a number of new faces that have joined the the NCCR SPIN:
Dr. Rolf Allenspach
from IBM Research Zurich was elected as an associate member of NCCR SPIN. He is leading the "Physics of Nanoscale Systems" group at IBM. Within NCCR SPIN he is working on the electron spin qubit project and micromagnets for spin manipulation. His further interests cover spintronics, nanomagnetism and atomic/molecular manipulation by scanning probe techniques.
Prof. Guido Burkard
from the University of Konstanz has joined the NCCR SPIN as an associate member. His research interests are in the theory of solid-state quantum information processing and in particular spin-qubits in semiconductor quantum dots. He has also done a lot of work in spin-photon coupling, often collaborating with leading experimentalists.
Prof. Edoardo Charbon
from the EPFL has joined the NCCR as an associate member. Within NCCR SPIN, Edoardo's expertise is in cryogenic qubit control and on-chip integration with the qubits. Further interests include
3-D vision, Computer Aided Design for VLSI, Virtual Human-Computer Interfaces, LiDAR, super-resolution microscopy and time-resolved Raman spectroscopy.
Dr. Andreas Kuhlmann
from the University of Basel was elected by the executive committee as a co-principal investigator (full member) of the NCCR SPIN, in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the finFET qubit project H4. Over the past few years, he has played a leading role on his project together with Richard Warburton and in close collaboration with the IBM Zurich Team of Andreas Fuhrer.
Prof. Ernst Meyer
from the University of Basel has joined the NCCR SPIN as a new PI (full member). Within NCCR SPIN, Ernst is planning to work on scanning probe microscopy for the characterization of spin-qubits. Further interests include friction at the nanometer scale, photovoltaics, graphene nanoribbons and Majorana zero modes.
Prof. Vincenzo Savona
from the EPFL has joined the NCCR SPIN as an associate member. His research interests cover the fields of quantum information science and quantum technology, quantum optics, and photonics, with the overarching goal of exploring the frontiers of modern quantum physics. He has been recently appointed as a Director of the new “Quantum Center” at the EPFL.
Prof. Andreas Schenk
from the ETH Zurich was elected as an associate member of NCCR SPIN. The focus of his current research is on the physics-based modeling of nanoelectronic devices such as quantum dots and spin qubits. His simulations can include many-body effects, contacts, heterojunctions, degradation and disorder, as well as full transport properties.