Last fall, we welcomed two new members in the group.

Benjamin Levitan completed his graduate studies at McGill University, obtaining his M.Sc. under the direction of Aash Clerk, and his Ph.D. with Tami Pereg-Barnea. After a first postdoc at the Weizmann Institute of Science, he recently joined the group for a second postdoc.

Tianrui completed her M.A. and Ph.D. under the direction of Prof. Joel E. Moore, followed by her first postdoc with Prof. Ana Maria Rey at JILA. She recently joined the group as a postdoc.

Measurement of the transmon in circuit QED does not have the fidelity expected from theory. In a new paper published in PRX, we present a unified picture of this phenomenon which is in agreement with experiments. 

This spring we are welcoming 4 new members in the group!

First, Boris Mihailov Varbanov, originally from Bulgaria, completed his master’s degree at the Delft University of Technology and then joined the QuTech research institute within the same university for his Ph.D. under the direction of Barbara Terhal. He recently joined the group as postdoc.

Baptiste Hoyau, from France, is currently completing his master’s degree in physics at EPFL (Lausanne). He will be an intern in our group from March to August 2024, then he will continue with us as a PhD student next fall.

Philippe Gigon, originally from Switzerland, is currently completing his master’s degree in Quantum Physics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He will be an intern with the group from April to August 2024.

Lev-Arcady Sellem, from France, completed a PhD at L’École des Mines and Inria in Paris, under the supervision of Pierre Rouchon and Claude Le Bris. He recently joined the group as a postdoc, co-directed by Pr Baptiste Royer.

Congratulations to Camille, who defended her thesis last December! Originally from France, she came to Institut Quantique to complete her PhD with the group, in cotutelle with the University of Strasbourg. As part of the QSciTech program she took part in during her PhD, she is currently completing an internship at Nord Quantique, a Sherbrooke-based quantum computing start-up.

This autumn, we welcome two new members!

Alex Chapple is starting his PhD with the group. He has just arrived from New Zealand, where he completed his master’s degree in physics at the University of Auckland.

Simon Richer joins us to start his master’s degree, after completing a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics at Polytechnique Montréal.

Welcome to you both!

Congratulations to Ross Shillito who defended his thesis on Friday September 14th!

Originally from New Zealand, he came at the Institut quantique to complete his PhD in our group. You can check out his papers on the ArXiV. Ross is now working at Nord Quantique, a Sherbrooke-based quantum computing start-up.

This spring, two new recruits joined the group!

Benjamin D’Anjou joined as a research scientist. He just arrived from Germany, where he completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Ulm University under the supervision of Professor Martin Plenio.

Christian de Correc arrived from France. He is doing a gap year as part of his master at ENS Paris-Saclay and will be interning with the group until the end of August 2023.

Welcome to Benjamin and Christian!

At the beginning of January 2023, we had the pleasure to welcome Ronan Gautier. Originally from France, he is currently completing his PhD at Inria in Paris, in the QUANTIC team. He will be a visiting PhD student with the group until the end of April. Before that, he did a master in physics at Cambridge University.