Gustav holds MSc degrees in physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and TU Munich. He completed his PhD at Chalmers University of Technology working on superconducting quantum circuits coupled to surface acoustic waves in 2020 and joined the cleland lab as a postdoc in 2021.
Sasha received his BS in applied physics from Caltech in 2017, where he worked on parametric amplifiers in Oskar Painter's lab. After completing his PhD in physics at the University of Chicago studying millimeter-wave superconducting quantum devices with Prof. David Schuster, he joined the cleland lab in 2024.
Andrew Cleland received his BS in engineering physics from UC Berkeley in 1983, and a PhD in physics from UC Berkeley in 1991. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre d'Etudes — Orme des Merisiers in Saclay, France, then worked as a senior research fellow at Caltech until 1997, when he joined the physics faculty at UC Santa Barbara. In 2014 he moved to the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago as the John A MacLean Sr Professor for Molecular Engineering, Innovation, and Enterprise. He is director of the Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility and a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory.
Andrew Cleland's research is presently focused on the application of superconducting circuits to quantum information, including both computation and communication; and the development of unique devices for exploring mechanics and acoustic vibrations at the quantum level.
Chris received his BS in physics from UC Santa Barbara in 2017, where he worked on microfluidics research in the lab of Sumita Pennathur. He then came to the University of Chicago where he is currently pursuing a PhD at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering in the cleland lab. His research work is focused on novel uses for superconducting qubits.
Yash joined the cleland lab in September of 2020. Yash received his BS and MS degrees from the Indian Institute for Science Education and Research — Pune in 2020. As a part of his masters thesis, he worked in the lab of Tobias Kippenberg at EPFL Switzerland on optical readout of a circuit electromechanical system. His recreational interests include swimming, chess and skiing.
Amber received her BS in Physics from the University of Toronto in 2024. During undergrad, her research experiences involved Rydberg atom array quantum simulation, x-ray spectroscopy for quantum materials, ultrafast laser-plasma dynamics, and balloon-borne telescope astrophysics. She is currently pursuing a PhD in quantum science and engineering at the University of Chicago and joined the cleland lab in 2024.
Shiheng received his BS in physics and BA in German from UC Santa Barbara in 2023, where he worked in the biophysics lab of Omar Saleh on developing tracking algorithms for magnetic tweezer experiments. He is currently pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of Chicago. He joined the cleland lab in 2023..
Howard earned dual BS degrees, in physics and computer engineering, from the University of Pittsburgh, while researching topological Josephson junctions and nanoelectronics under Sergey Frolov. Howard also participated in research looking for shadow bands during the 2024 solar eclipse. Before college, Howard worked at the NIH where he developed a mouse enclosure that autonomously monitored feeding behavior for studies in Alzheimer's. Howard joined the cleland Lab in 2024.
Jacob received his BS in physics from UC Santa Barbara in 2021, where he worked in the lab of Ben Mazin on developing new control and data-processing techniques for microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) arrays. He is currently pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of Chicago. He joined the cleland lab in 2022.
Harsh received his BS and MS degrees from the Indian Institute for Science Education and Research, Berhampur in August 2024. His research experience covers a wide range of experimental quantum optics. As part of his master's thesis, he worked in the laboratory of Philipp Haslinger at the Vienna University of Technology, where he developed a free-space cathodoluminescence extraction setup to study coincident electron-photon pairs. He joined the cleland lab in September 2024.
Hong joined the cleland lab in 2021. He received his BS in Physics from Peking University in 2019, where he worked on quantum information theory under the supervision of Prof. Qiongyi He and Prof. Heng Fan. He also had two-year research experience in experimental quantum optics and atomic physics. He is currently pursuing a PhD in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. His research interests are superconducting qubits and quantum acoustics.
Minseok received his BS in Physics from Yonsei University in 2023. He has a broad range of experience in quantum optics and phenomenological high energy physics. He also served in the US Army as part of his mandatory military service in Korea. He joined the cleland lab in 2024 and is currently pursuing a PhD in quantum science and engineering at the University of Chicago.
Xuntao received his BS in Physics from Nanjing University in 2021, where he worked on gate design for superconducting qubits in Prof. Yang Yu's lab. He also has research experience in dissipative quantum information science and experimental solid-state spin systems. His research interests mainly focus on quantum information and modular quantum computing architectures.
sequoyah aldridge | Sequoyah was a PhD student in the cleland lab starting in 1998 and graduating with a PhD in 2004. He's currently a staff scientist at Ipitek in Carlsbad, California. | |||||||
benjamín alemán | Benjamín was a postdoctoral fellow in the cleland and awschalom labs in ucsb. He then joined the department of physics faculty at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. | |||||||
chris axline | Chris was a ucsb undergraduate student who worked for three years in the cleland lab. He then got a PhD in the Schoelkopf group at Yale, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Home ion physics group at ETH Zurich. | |||||||
audrey bienfait | Audrey was a postdoctoral researcher in the cleland lab from 2016-2019, and recently joined the CNRS working at the École Normale Superieure in Lyon, France. | |||||||
joerg bochmann | Joerg worked in the cleland lab from 2011-2014 as a postdoctoral fellow, then left to join Trumpf Lasers. He's currently working at SPI Lasers in the United Kingdom. | |||||||
jorge carvalho | Jorge was a visiting graduate student from the Instituto Superier Téchnico who was in the cleland lab from 2011 to 2012. After finishing his PhD studies, he joined the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal, where he is working as a research scientist. | |||||||
hung-shen chang | Hung-shen was one of the first UChicago students to join the cleland lab. Hung-shen graduated with his PhD in 2021, and he has joined Google AI's quantum effort in Santa Barbara CA. | |||||||
ming-han chou | Ming-han was the first UChicago physics student to join the cleland lab. Ming-han graduated with his PhD in 2022, and currently is part of Amazon AWS's quantum computing effort in Pasadena CA. | |||||||
étienne dumur | Étienne was in the cleland lab from 2016 to 2019 as a postdoctoral researcher. He has since joined the Quanteca lab at the Centre d'Études Atomique in Grenoble, France. | |||||||
jean-luc fraikin | Jean-Luc was a ucsb graduate student in the cleland lab from 2005 to 2010. He is currently the CEO of Spectradyne LLC, a nanoparticle instrumentation company based in Signal Hill, California. | |||||||
joel grebel | Joel was a UChicago graduate student in the cleland lab from 2016-2023. Joel graduated in 2023, and joined Audrey Bienfait's research effort at ENS Lyon as a postdoctoral researcher. He's now a staff scientist at Google AI's quantum effort in Santa Barbara CA. | |||||||
max hofheinz | Max was a postdoctoral fellow in the cleland lab at ucsb from 2008 to 2010. He is currently on the Institut Quantique faculty at the Université de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. | |||||||
rob knobel | Rob was a postdoctoral fellow in the cleland lab at ucsb from 2001 to 2003. He is currently a faculty member of the department of physics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. | |||||||
matteo mariantoni | Matteo was an Elings Prize postdoctoral fellow in the cleland lab at ucsb from 2009 to 2011. He is currently a member of the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. | |||||||
anthony megrant | Anthony was a graduate student in the cleland lab from 2009 to 2015. He is currently a quantum electronics engineer at Google's Santa Barbara location. | |||||||
chris mckenney | Chris was a graduate student in the cleland lab at ucsb from 2003 to 2011. He is currently working as a staff scientist at Caltech/JPL in Pasadena, California. | |||||||
kang-kuen ni | KK was a ucsb undergraduate student and worked in the cleland lab from 2002 to 2003. She is now on the faculty of the physics department at Harvard University. | |||||||
charles neill | Charles was a ucsb graduate student who worked in the cleland lab from 2011 to 2017, when he completed his PhD. He's now working as a quantum engineer at Google in Santa Barbara. | |||||||
aaron o'connell | Aaron was a ucsb graduate student in the cleland lab from 2005 to 2010. He's currently the CEO of Zube in the Los Angeles area. | |||||||
greg peairs | Greg joined the cleland lab as a ucsb graduate student in 2012 and graduated in 2019 after our move to chicago. He is currently a staff scientist in Amazon AWS's quantum effort in the San Francisco Bay Area. | |||||||
rhys povey | Rhys graduated with a PhD in Physics from the Cleland group and University of Chicago in 2023. He's now working as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Markus Aspelmeyer at the University of Vienna. | |||||||
nitin rajan | Nitin was a postdoctoral researcher in the cleland lab from 2013 to 2015. He's currently a senior engineering manager at Avails Medical in the San Francisco Bay Area. | |||||||
sukumar rajauria | Sukumar was a postdoctoral researcher in the cleland lab at ucsb from 2011 to 2013. He's currently a chief technologist at Western Digital in the San Francisco Bay Area. | |||||||
mike requa | Mike was a postdoctoral researcher in the cleland lab from 2007 to 2009. He's currently a program manager at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. | |||||||
kevin satzinger | Kevin joined the cleland lab as a ucsb graduate student in 2012 and graduated in 2018 after our move to chicago. He is currently a staff scientist in Google's quantum effort in Santa Barbara. | |||||||
daniel schmidt | Dan joined the cleland lab in ucsb after getting his PhD in Jim Allen's group. He stayed as a postdoctoral fellow until 2003. He is currently a staff scientist at NIST Boulder and does some cool photography. | |||||||
michael stanton | Mike was a PhD student in the cleland lab at ucsb from 2003 to 2011. He's currently a partner at the Stanton Engineering Group in Houston, Texas. | |||||||
loren swenson | Loren was a ucsb PhD student in the cleland lab, joining in 2001. He completed his PhD in 2007, and is currently with Amazon AWS's quantum effort in Pasadena CA. | |||||||
amit vainsencher | Amit was a ucsb graduate student in the cleland lab from 2010 to 2016. After graduating with his PhD in 2016, Amit joined the Google effort in Santa Barbara. Amit very sadly passed away from natural causes in 2019. | |||||||
eva weig | Eva worked in the cleland lab in ucsb from 2003 to 2005 as a postdoctoral fellow, following her PhD with Jörg Kotthaus at the LMU. Eva then joined the physics department faculty at the University of Konstanz, and in 2020 moved to a new position as chair of nano- and quantum sensors at TU Munich. | |||||||
david wood | Dave was a ucsb graduate student in the cleland lab from 2001 to 2007. He is currently on the faculty of the department of biomedical engineering at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. | |||||||
haoxiong yan | Haoxiong was a PhD student in the cleland lab starting in 2019 and graduating with a PhD in 2024. He's currently a staff scientist at Applied Materials in Los Altos CA. | |||||||
chris yung | Chris was the first graduate student in the cleland lab, joining in 1997 and graduating with a PhD in 2004. He's currently a senior scientist at iBeam Materials in Santa Fe, New Mexico. | |||||||
youpeng zhong | Youpeng was one of the first students to join the cleland lab in chicago. He graduated with a PhD in 2019, and stayed through 2020 as a postdoctoral researcher. Youpeng is now a researcher in the new Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (SIQSE), a division of the Southern University of Science and Technology. Check out his webpage. |