New Members in the Network

We are excited to present to you a number of new faces that have joined the the NCCR SPIN:

Prof. Andrea Hofmann 

from the University of Basel was elected as full member of NCCR SPIN. She was appointed by the University of Basel as assistant professor (with tenure track) and has taken up the professorship in experimental quantum computing with semiconductors in the Department of Physics in October 2021. Her focus is on semiconductor nanostructures for the study of physics at the level of single electrons and quantum dot spin qubits. She is also researching hybrid superconductor-semiconductor devices to study Andreev spin qubits and topological superconductivity.

Dr. Patrick Harvey-Collard

from IBM Research Zurich was elected as full member of NCCR SPIN. He is a Research Staff Member in the Quantum Technology group and focusses on quantum computing with spins in solid-state devices in his research. He is passionate about developing a scalable spin-qubit architecture, circuit quantum electrodynamics with spins, and semiconductor device fabrication. Prior to joining IBM, P. Harvey-Collard was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the group of Prof. Lieven Vandersypen at QuTech (Delft, 2018-2021) where he worked on combining technologies from circuit quantum electrodynamics and silicon spin qubits, with the goal to find new opportunities to advance both fields.

Dr. Ivano Tavernelli

from IBM Research Zurich has joined the NCCR as an associate member. Ivano contributes to IBM’s quantum computing team already since 2015 and was appointed as "Global leader for advanced algorithms for quantum simulations" at IBM Research - Zurich. Within NCCR SPIN, Ivano's expertise is in quantum computing architectures and quantum algorithms.