MQC Members

Assistant Professor
Shannon Nicley
Diamond and custom materials growth and characterization for quantum optical devices
Research Scientist
Franco Nori
quantum information processing, superconducting qubits, software for quantum, open quantum systems, quantum optics
Full Professor
Theodore B. Norris
ultrafast optics and dynamics in quantum materials
Full Professor
Jennifer P Ogilvie
Development and application of multidimensional spectroscopy. Studies of coherent processes in molecular systems
Full Professor
Carlo Piermarocchi
Quantum Dots and Impurities in Semiconductors; Quantum Control Theory; Computational Quantum Electromagnetics; Simulations of Quantum Devices; Photon-based Quantum Information
Assistant Professor
Johannes Pollanen
hybrid quantum systems, superconducting qubits, trapped electrons on helium, surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices, NV centers
Full Professor
S. Sandeep Pradhan
Quantum information, quantum computing
Associate Professor
Liang Qi
computational materials science, first-principles calculations, multiscale modeling, materials design
Full Professor
Georg Raithel
laser cooling, Rydberg atoms and molecules, optical lattices, atom guides and interferometers, Rydberg-EIT
Full Professor
Francis Robicheaux
Atomic physics with a focus on the role of decoherence in the non-idealized interaction between atoms and light.
Assistant Professor
Thomas Roth
Computational quantum electromagnetics; multiscale and multiphysics modeling
Full Professor
Chong-Yu Ruan
Quantum material research, Nonequilibrium many-body physics, Ultrafast scattering and microscopy
Full Professor
Jeffrey Schenker
Disorder and noise effects on quantum systems
Assistant Professor
Niranjan Shivaram
Ultrafast AMO Science, Attosecond Science, Ultrafast X-ray Science
Full Professor
Vanessa Sih
electron and nuclear spin dynamics in semiconductors, ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy
Full Professor
Duncan Steel
Coherent optical control, quantum optics, semiconductor quantum dots, laser spectroscopy
Research Scientist
David Stewart
Leading quantum institute
Associate Professor
Kai Sun
Quantum materials, topological states of matter, condensed matter physics (theory)
Associate Professor
Stuart Tessmer
majorana fermions, topological insulators, electronic imaging
Research Scientist
Ben Torralva
Ultrafast laser-materials interactions, nonadiabatic quantum molecular dynamics, point-defect generation and transport, surface plasmon polaritons, high spatial frequency laser-induced periodic surface structures (HSFL), Radiation hydrodynamic modeling and finite element modeling of laser-materials interactions.
Assistant Professor
Tyler Tyler
Terahertz microscopy and spectroscopy
Assistant Professor
George Tzimpragos
Superconducting computing
Assistant Professor
Jukka Vayrynen
Theoretical quantum condensed matter physics, especially topological quantum materials, and quantum information science