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.

This fall, we welcomed five new members to the group!

First, two postdoctoral fellows joined the team. The first one, Manuel Munoz-Arias, originally from Colombia, completed his M.Sc.. and Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico and the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC). The second, Alexander McDonald, a native of Ottawa, Canada, comes from the University of Chicago, where he completed his PhD. Prior to that, he completed his master’s degree at McGill University in Montreal.

Next, Othmane Benhayoune-Khadraoui, originally from Morocco, joined the team to start his PhD, after completing his master’s degree at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL).

Finally, two new students from Quebec are starting their master’s degree within the group. Marie-Frédérique Dumas completed her bachelor’s degree in engineering physics at Polytechnique Montréal, while Benjamin Groleau-Paré completed his undergraduate degree in physics at the Université de Sherbrooke.

Welcome to the group!

We are thrilled to have Lautaro Labarca Guardo join the group, arriving from Santiago, Chile. During his Undergraduate studies in Energy Engineering at Universidad de León, Spain, Lautaro focused his Thesis work on biochemical fuel cells as a member of Dr. Antonio Morán’s lab. He completed his Master’s in Physics at Universidad de Santiago de Chile, during which his Thesis focused on the out of equilibrium dynamics of a Spin-1 chain. Now at the Institut quantique, Lautaro will pursue his doctoral work on circuit quantization and qubit engineering.