#  Former Group Members 

 



## Former Postdoctoral Fellows:

- [Alexey Akimov](https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/chemistry/faculty/faculty-directory/akimov.html), Associate Professor, University at Buffalo
- [Ehud Altman](https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/ehudaltmansgroup), Professor, University of California Berkley
- Nabeel Aslam, Junior Professor, Leipzig University
- Vlatko Balic, Tudor Investments
- Rivka Bekenstein, Principal Investigator, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Steven Bennett, VP of Data Science, Data + Math
- [Hannes Bernien](http://www.bernienlab.com/), Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
- Johannes Borregaard, Research Associate, Harvard University
- Alexei Bylinskii, Senior Research Scientist, QuEra Computing, Inc.
- [Paola Capellaro](http://qeg.mit.edu/index.php), Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- [Emmanuel Dalla Torre](https://nonequilibrium.ph.biu.ac.il/), Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University
- Kristiaan de Greve, Group Leader, University of Leuven/IMEC
- [Nathalie de Leon](https://sites.google.com/view/deleonlab), Assistant Professor, Princeton University
- [Ivana Dimitrova](https://cos.northeastern.edu/people/ivana-dimitrova/), Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
- [Gurudev Dutt](http://www.duttlab.pitt.edu/), Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
- [Manuel Endres](https://www.endreslab.com/), Assistant Professor, Caltech
- [Dirk Englund](https://www.rle.mit.edu/qp/), Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute Technology
- Johannes Feldmeier, Research Fellow, TU Munich
- [Ofer Firstenberg](http://www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/Firstenberg/), Senior Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Xun Gao, Assistant Professor of Physics and JILA Associate Fellow, University of Colorado Boulder
- Jan Gieseler, Research Engineer, IAV Digital Lab
- Daniel González-Cuadra, Ramón y Cajal Fellow, Institute for Theoretical Physics (Spain)
- [Sarang Gopalakrishnan](https://www.csi.cuny.edu/campus-directory/sarang-gopalakrishnan), Assistant Professor, Princeton University
- Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Senior Physicist, Stealth Startup
- Wen Wei Ho, Assistant Professor of Physics, National University of Singapore
- Jonathan Hodges, VP of Engineering, DUST Identity, Inc.
- [Sebastian Hofferberth](http://physics.sdu.dk/people/hofferberth), Professor, University of Bonn
- Simon Hollerith, Google/UC Boulder
- [Ania Jayich](http://www.10-9lab.com/), Professor, University of California Santa Barbara
- Eric Kessler, General Manager, Amazon Web Services
- [Helena Knowles](https://coherentquantum.phy.cam.ac.uk/), University Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge
- [Frank Koppens](https://www.icfo.eu/lang/research/groups/groups-details?group_id=31), Group Leader, ICFO, Professor, ICREA
- [Alexander Kubanek](https://www.uni-ulm.de/en/nawi/institute-for-quantum-optics/members/members-ag-prof-kubanek/), Professor, University of Ulm
- Renate Landig, Optical Scientist, Meta
- Christian Latta, Head of Digital Transformation, Sympany
- [Chris Laumann](http://physics.bu.edu/people/show/claumann), Associate Professor, Boston University
- [Jinguo Liu](https://facultyprofiles.hkust-gz.edu.cn/faculty-personal-page/LIU-Jinguo/jinguoliu), Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
- Tom Manovitz, Assistant Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Leigh Martin, Google
- Khadijeh Najafi, Staff Scientist, Q-CTRL
- [Travis Nicholson](https://www.quantumlah.org/research/group/travis), Assistant Professor, Duke University
- Simone Notarnicola, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Padova
- Ahmed Omran, AI Resident, Google
- Johannes Otterbach, SPRIN-D
- Dmitry Petrov, CNRS
- Thibault Peyronel, Research Scientist, Facebook
- [Hannes Pichler](https://iqoqi.at/en/people/workgroup-staff/pichler-gruppe?group=20108), Professor, Universität Innsbruck
- [Thomas Pohl](https://phys.au.dk/ccq/research/groups/thomas-pohl), Professor, Aarhus University
- Mark Polking, Technical Staff Member, MIT Lincoln Lab
- [Anatoly Polkovnikov](http://physics.bu.edu/~asp/), Professor, Boston University
- Piotr Put, Jagiellonian University
- Peter Rabl, Full Professor, TU Munich
- [Ralf Riedinger](https://www.physik.uni-hamburg.de/en/ilp/ag-riedinger/personen.html), Professor, Universität Hamburg
- Florentin Reiter, Head of Business Unit Quantum Systems, Fraunhofer IAF
- [Ana Maria Rey](https://jila.colorado.edu/arey/), Associate Research Professor/Fellow, University of Colorado Boulder/JILA
- Joaquin Rodriguez-Nieva, TAMU
- [Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi](https://jdsylab.physics.uci.edu/), Professor, University of California Irvine
- [Crystal Senko](https://uwaterloo.ca/physics-astronomy/people-profiles/crystal-senko), Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
- Sylvain Schwartz, Senior Scientist, ONERA
- Martin Schuetz, Principal Research Scientist, Amazon Web Services
- Giulia Semeghini, Assistant Professor, Harvard University
- [Alp Sipahigil](https://quantumdevices.berkeley.edu/), Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- [Anders Sorensen](https://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/staff/?pure=en/persons/281654), Professor, Niels Bohr Institute
- Denis Sukachev, Senior Research Scientist, Lightsynq
- [Aziza Suleymanzade](https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/aziza-suleymanzade-0), Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- [Alexander Sushkov](http://www.sushkov.com/), Assistant Professor, Boston University
- [Jeff Thompson](https://sites.google.com/site/thompsonlabq/home), Assistant Professor, Princeton University
- Tobias Tiecke, Research Scientist, Meta
- Quirin Unterreithmeier, EPCOS AG
- Oscar Viyuela, Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company
- [Caspar van der Wal](http://www.quantumdevices.nl/), Professor, University of Groningen
- [Daw-Wei Wang](http://phys.site.nthu.edu.tw/p/406-1335-58679,r3581.php?Lang=en), Professor, National Tsing-Hua University
- [Philip Walther](https://walther.quantum.at/), Professor, University of Vienna
- Sheng-Tao Wang, Senior Research Scientist, QuEra Computing, Inc.
- Sina Zeytinoglu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Technische Universität Wien
- Aleksandr A. Zibrov, Senior Quantum Research Engineer, Qunett

## Former Graduate Students:

- Trond Anderson, Google Quantum AI
- Axel Andre, Reinsurance Group of America
- [Michal Bajcsy](https://npqo.weebly.com/), Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
- Mihir Bhaskar, CEO, Lightsynq
- Dolev Bluvstein, Visiting Associate, Caltech
- Madelyn Cain, Google Quantum AI
- [Darrick Chang](https://www.icfo.eu/lang/research/groups/groups-details?group_id=35), Professor/Group Leader, ICREA/ICFO
- Yu-Ting Chen, Associate Professor, University of Victoria
- [Lilian Childress](http://childressgroup.blogspot.com/p/home.html), Assistant Professor, McGill University
- Nicholas Chisholm, Chief Strategy and Data Officer, Fig Tech
- Joonhee Choi, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
- Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor, MIT
- Iris Cong, Medical Student, Stanford University
- [Yiwen Chu](https://www.phys.ethz.ch/the-department/people/person-detail.MjU0MDQ5.TGlzdC84NDQsMTE3MjU5OTI5OQ==.html), Assistant Professor, ETH Zurich
- Pavel Dolgirev, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland
- Tamara Dordevic, Systems Engineer, Waymo
- Bo Dwyer, Lidar Engineer, Motional
- [Matthew Eisaman](http://appliednano.ece.stonybrook.edu/)†, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
- Ruffin Evans, Sensing & Perceptions Systems Engineer, Waymo
- Simon Evered, Senior Quantum Research Scientist, Oratomic
- Long Fung Frankie Fung, Quantum Engineer, Applied Materials
- Michael Goldman, Senior Staff Physicist, IonQ
- [Alexey Gorshkov](https://groups.jqi.umd.edu/gorshkov/), Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Maryland/JQI
- Brandon Grinkemeyer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
- Michael Gullans, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University
- Jinen (Tim) Guo, Quantitative Researcher, Jane Street
- [Mohammad Hafezi](https://groups.jqi.umd.edu/hafezi/), Associate Professor, University of Maryland/JQI
- [Liang Jiang](https://pme-cms.prod.uchicago.edu/group/jiang-group), Professor, University of Chicago
- Aaron Kabcenell, Research Scientist, Meta
- Alexander Keesling, CEO, QuEra Computing, Inc.
- Emil Khabiboulline, Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) at the University of Maryland, College Park
- Erik Knall, Investment Associate, Azolla Ventures
- Can Knaut, Quantum Research Scientist, Google
- [Shimon Kolkowitz](https://kolkowitzlab.physics.wisc.edu/), Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Marcin Kalinowski
- Peter Komar, Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services
- Georg Kucsko, Co-Founder and CTO, Suno
- Nathaniel Leitao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
- Harry Levine, Assistant Professor, University of California-Berkeley
- David Levonian, Co-Founder and CPO, Lightsynq
- Igor Lovchinsky, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Chromatic
- Bart Machielse, Co-Founder and CTO, Lightsynq
- Nishad Maskara, Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- [Peter Maurer](https://maurer-lab.com/), Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
- [Jero Maze](https://fisica.uc.cl/en/academico/jeronimo-maze-2/), Associate Professor, UC Chile University
- Christian Nguyen, Senior Research Scientist, SandboxAQ
- Paloma Ocola, Scientist, Exponent
- Janos Perczel, Co-founder/CEO, Polygence
- Kristine Rezai, Technical Presales Engineer, IQM Quantum Computer
- Emma Rosenfeld, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI
- Arthur Safira, Senior Director of Systems Engineering, Motional
- Po Samutpraphoot, Photonics IC Engineer, Apple
- John DaLi Schaefer, Rigetti Computing
- Alp Sipahigil, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- Brendan Shields, Chief Technology Officer, Quantum Network Technologies
- Tamara Sumarac, Boston Consulting Group
- Andrey Sushko, Co-founder/CTO, WindBourne Systems
- Madison Sutula, Research Scientist, Lightsynq
- [Jacob Taylor](https://groups.jqi.umd.edu/taylor/), Adjunct Professor, JQI/NIST
- [Jeff Thompson](https://sites.google.com/site/thompsonlabq/home), Assistant Professor, Princeton Univ.
- Emre Togan, ETH Zurich
- Elana Urbach, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
- Aditya Venkatramani, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
- Dominik Wild, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics
- [Norman Yao](https://quantumoptics.physics.berkeley.edu/), Professor, Harvard University
- Hengyun Zhou, QuEra Computing
- Leo Zhou, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

## Former Research Scholars:

- Nate Gemelke, Senior Research Scientist, QuEra Computing, Inc.
- Szymon Pustelny, Professor, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
- Tout Wang, Senior Technical Product Manager, QuEra Computing, Inc.