Leadership
David Awschalom
Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering, UChicago; Senior Scientist, Argonne; Director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter, Physics Device Physics, Quantum Information, Quantum Optics Quantum Sensing
Supratik Guha
Senior Advisor to Argonne Physical Sciences & Engineering; Professor of Molecular Engineering, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Device Physics, Quantum Sensing
Joe Lykken
Fermilab Deputy Director and Chief Research Officer
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Computing, High-Energy Physics
Dale Van Harlingen
Donald Biggar Willett Professor, College of Engineering, UIUC
Areas of Expertise:
Device fabrication, Transport and phase-sensitive Josephson measurements, Magnetic imaging
Administrative Core
Kate Timmerman
Executive Director, Chicago Quantum Exchange
Diana Morgan
Strategic Operations Lead, CQE/QIS/PME
The University of Chicago
Hannes Bernien
Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Quantum Information, Quantum Optics
Clarence Chang
Assistant Physicist, Argonne; Assistant Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Information, Quantum Sensing, Device Physics
Cheng Chin
Professor of Physics, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics
Fred Chong
Seymour Goodman Professor of Computer Architecture in the Department of Computer Science, UChicago; Argonne Joint Appointee
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Information
Andrew Cleland
John A. MacLean Sr. Professor for Molecular Engineering Innovation and Enterprise, and Director, Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility, UChicago; Argonne Joint Appointee
Areas of Expertise:
Device Physics, Nanomechanics, Quantum Information, Quantum Optics, Quantum Sensing
Aashish Clerk
Professor of Molecular Engineering, UChicago; Argonne Joint Appointee
Areas of Expertise:
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Information, Quantum Optics
William Fefferman
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Computation, Quantum Complexity Theory
Giulia Galli
Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering, UChicago; Senior Scientist, Argonne
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Physical Chemistry
Philippe Guyot-Sionnest
Professor of Chemistry and Physics, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Device Physics, Physical Chemistry
Alexander High
Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Device Physics, Quantum Optics
Liang Jiang
Professor of Molecular Engineering, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Information, Quantum Communication, Quantum Computing
Woowon Kang
Professor of Physics, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Device Physics, Topological Physics
Michael Levin
Associate Professor of Physics, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Topological Physics
Kathy Levin
Professor of Physics, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics
Peter Maurer
Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Physical Chemistry, Quantum Optics, Quantum Sensing
Jiwoong Park
Professor of Chemistry, UChicago; Argonne Joint Appointee
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Device Physics, Physical Chemistry
Shinsei Ryu
Associate Professor of Physics, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Topological Physics
David Schuster
Associate Professor of Physics, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Device Physics, Quantum Information, Quantum Optics
Erik Shirokoff
Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Device Physics, Quantum Sensing
Steven Sibener
Carl William Eisendrath Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Physical Chemistry
Jonathan Simon
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Physics, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Optics, Topological Physics
Dam Son
University Professor of Physics, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Topological Physics
Dmitri Talapin
Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry, UChicago; Argonne Joint Appointee
Areas of Expertise:
Device Physics, Physical Chemistry
Paul Wiegmann
Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Topological Physics
Shuolong Yang
Assistant Professor in Molecular Engineering, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Superconducting Technology, Topological Physics
Tian Zhong
Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Joint Appointee, UChicago/Argonne
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Device Physics, Quantum Information, Quantum Optics
Argonne National Laboratory
Yuri Alexeev
Computational Principal Project Specialist, Argonne
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Simulation, Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Software
Ian C. Cloët
Deputy Theory Group Leader, Physics Division, ANL
Hal Finkel
Compiler Technology and Programming Languages Lead, Argonne
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Information, Quantum Computing
Stephen Gray
Theory and Modeling Group Leader, Argonne
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Physical Chemistry, Quantum Information, Quantum Optics, Quantum Sensing
Marco Govini
Assistant Scientist, Argonne National Lab; Scientist at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Physical Chemistry, Quantum Information
Salman Habib
Senior Physicist and Computational Scientist, Argonne
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Information, Quantum Optics, Quantum Sensing, Nanomechanics
F. Joseph Heremans
Applied Physicist, Argonne; Staff Scientist at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Information, Quantum Optics, Quantum Sensing, Nanomechanics
Martin Holt
Nanoscientist, Argonne
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Information, Nanomechanics, Device Physics
Raj Kettimuthu
Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
Areas of Expertise:
High-Performance Computing, Machine Learning
Xuedan Ma
Assistant Nanoscientist, Argonne
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Physical Chemistry, Quantum Optics, Device Physics
Ivar Martin
Senior Physicist, Argonne
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Topological Physics, Nonequilibrium Systems, Quantum Information, Quantum Optics
Matthew Otten
Maria Goeppert Mayer Fellow, Argonne
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Information, Quantum Optics, Quantum Sensing
Amanda Petford-Long
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University; Interim Division Director and Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics
Rick Stevens
Computing, Environment and Life Sciences Associate Laboratory Director, Argonne
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Simulation, Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Software, Quantum Computer Simulation
Martin Suchara
Computer Scientist, Argonne
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Computing, Quantum Networking, Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Computer Simulation
Valerii Vinokour
Distinguished Fellow, Argonne
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Information, Quantum Sensing, Topological Physics, Device Physics
Linda Young
Distinguished Fellow, Argonne; Professor of Physics, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Quantum Optics
Xufeng Zhang
Assistant Scientist, Argonne
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Optics, Nanomechanics, Topological Physics, Device Physics
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
James Amundson
Head of Fermilab Scientific Computing Division, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Computing, High-Energy Physics, High-Performance Computing
Davide Braga
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) Development Engineer, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
Integrated Circuits, Cold Electronics
Gustavo Cancelo
Engineer, Scientific Computing Division Group Leader, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
High-Energy Physics
Marcela Carena
Head, Theoretical Physics Department, Fermilab; Professor (part-time), Department of Physics, and Enrico Fermi Institute, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
High-Energy Physics, Quantum Computing for High-Energy Physics
Juan Estrada
Scientist, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
Astrophysics, Dark Matter Detection, Superconducting Detectors
Farah Fahim
Senior ASIC Development Engineer, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
Readout Integrated Circuits, Photon Detectors
Roni Harnik
Senior Scientist, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
Standard Model Physics, Dark Matter, Quantum Sensors
Rakshya Khatiwada
Research Associate, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
Dark matter astrophysics, quantum sensors and devices
Jim Kowalkowski
Computational Science Researcher, Quantum Science Program, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Computing, Quantum Information
Andy Li
Postdoctoral Researcher, Quantum Science Program, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Information
Adam Lyon
Senior Scientist; Associate Division Head for Systems for Scientific Applications, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
High-Energy Physics, Particle Physics, Quantum Computing
Alex Macridin
Applications Physicist, Quantum Science Program, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
Accelerator and Beam Simulations, Quantum Algorithms
Brian Nord
Associate Scientist, Fermilab
CASE Scientist, Astronomy & Astrophysics, UChicago
Senior Member, KICP, UChicago
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Integrating Machine Learning, Quantum Algorithms
Shengshi Pang
Research Associate, Quantum Science Program, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Computing, Quantum Information and Quantum Metrology
Cristián Peña
Fermilab Lederman Fellow, Caltech INQNET Fellow, Co-spokesperson for Fermilab FQNet experiment
Areas of Expertise:
High-Energy Physics and Detectors, QIS High-Energy Physics Instrumentation
Gabriel Perdue
Scientist, Quantum Science Program, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
Machine Learning, Quantum Information, Particle Physics
Rob Plunkett
Senior Scientist, Co-PI of MAGIS-100, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
High-Energy Physics, Particle Physics
Alex Romanenko
Senior Scientist, Technical Division Associate Head, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Physics, Superconducting Technology
Liz Sexton-Kennedy
Fermilab Associate Director for Computing, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
High-Energy Physics
Panagiotis Spentzouris
Senior Scientist, Head Quantum Science Program, Fermilab
Areas of Expertise:
High-Energy Physcs, Quantum Computing, Quantum Networking
The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Alexey Bezryadin
Professor of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Areas of Expertise:
Superconducting qubits, Topologically protected qubits, Transduction
David Ceperley
Professor of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Chemical Physics
Eric Chitambar
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Information Theory, Quantum Communication, Quantum Computation, Quantum Foundations
Bryan Clark
Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Simulation, Quantum Computing, Quantum Algorithms
Brian DeMarco
Professor and Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs, Department of Physics, College of Engineering, UIUC
Areas of Expertise:
Laser trapping and cooling techniques, ultrahigh vacuum, radio- and micro-wave frequency electromagnetics
James Eckstein
Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Areas of Expertise:
MBE of superconductors and topological materials, structure/function relationships for quantum coherence, impact of defects on coherence, topological superconductivity
Aida El-Khadra
Professor of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Areas of Expertise:
High Energy Physics, Lattice field Theory, Quantum Computing
Kejie Fang
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Optics, Quantum Information, Nanomechanics, Quantum Sensing
Thomas Faulkner
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Areas of Expertise:
High Energy Physics and Particle Physics, Quantum Information
Paul Kwiat
Professor, Department of Physics, College of Engineering, UIUC
Areas of Expertise:
Entanglement, correlated photons, precision optical measurements, foundations of physics
Anthony Leggett
Professor, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed matter, quantum information, topological quantum computing, superconducting qubits, quantum foundations
Virginia Lorenz
Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Areas of Expertise:
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Quantum Optics
Nadya Mason
Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Areas of Expertise:
Device Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Topological Physics
Smitha Vishveshwara
Associate Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Topological Systems, Atomic, molecular, and Optical Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Baha Balantekin
Eugene P. Wigner Professor, UW-Madison
Areas of Expertise:
Nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics; quantum simulation of nuclear and particle physics
Victor Brar
Assistant Professor of Physics, UW-Madison
Areas of Expertise:
Areas of expertise: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, 2D materials, magnetic materials, optics, metasurfaces, quantum materials
Susan Coppersmith
Robert E. Fassnacht Professor of Physics & Vilas Research Professor, UW-Madison
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed matter theory, Quantum computing theory
Chang-Beom Eom
Raymond R. Holton Chair Professor in Engineering and Theodore H. Geballe, UW-Madison
Areas of Expertise:
Nanostructure fabrications of novel materials, Hetroepitaxy of complex oxide thin films and heterostructures
Mark Eriksson
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, UW-Madison
Areas of Expertise:
Experimental studies of nanostructures, Quantum computing, Qubits in silicon, Semiconductor membranes, Interacting electrons in low-dimensional systems, Application of nanoelectronics to biology.
Robert Joynt
Professor of Physics, UW-Madison
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Computing, Superconductivity, Quantum Hall Effect
Shimon Kolkowitz
Assistant Professor of Physics, UW-Madison
Areas of Expertise:
Precision measurement; quantum sensing; metrology; timekeeping; tests of relativity; quantum optics
Max Lagally
Erwin W. Mueller Professor and Bascom Professor of Surface Science, UW-Madison
Areas of Expertise:
Nanoscale properties of surfaces, interfaces, thin films, and dimensionally confined structures, Atom-scale mechanisms of film growth: Group IV semiconductors, nano-strain engineering, silicon nanomembranes
Alex Levchenko
Associate Professor of Physics, UW-Madison
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum kinetics, Mesoscopic effects, Nonequilibrium systems, Superconductivity, Topological materials
Robert McDermott
Professor of Physics, UW-Madison
Areas of Expertise:
Superconducting qubits (coherence, quantum measurement, scalable control), hybrid quantum systems
Kim Palladino
Assistant Professor of Physics, UW-Madison
Areas of Expertise:
High energy physics; dark matter searches; quantum simulation of particle and nuclear physics
Mark Saffman
Professor of Physics, UW-Madison
Areas of Expertise:
Atomic physics; quantum computing with neutral atoms; quantum optics; entanglement; nonlinear optics; solitons; pattern formation
Thad Walker
Professor of Physics, UW-Madison
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum information using Rydberg Atoms; Spin-exchange optical pumping; Biomagnetometry
Sau Lan Wu
Enrico Fermi Professor of Physics & Vilas Professor, UW-Madison
Areas of Expertise:
Experimental high energy physics, quantum machine learning with applications to high energy physics
Deniz Yavuz
Professor of Physics, UW-Madison
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum and nonlinear optics; ultrafast physics and quantum interference effects such as slow light and stopped light
Northwestern University
Michael Bedzyk
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Nanomechanics, Device Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Physical Chemistry
Randall Berry
Chair and John A. Dever Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Communication, Quantum Information
Vinayak Dravid
Abraham Harris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Sensing, Nanomechanics
Danna Freedman
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Sensing, Physical Chemistry, Synthesis of Creation of QIS System
Andrew Geraci
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Sensing, Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Nanomechanics, High-Energy and Particle Physics
Pallab Goswami
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Topological Physics
Matthew Grayson
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Nanomechanics, Device Physics, Cryogenic Thermoelectrics
Dongning Guo
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Communication, Quantum Information
William Halperin
Orrington Lunt Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Sensing, Condensed Matter Physics, Topological Physics
Mark Hersam
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Sensing, Physical Chemistry, Device Physics
Mercouri Kanatzidis
Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Physical Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Topological Physics
John Ketterson
Fayerweather Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Optics, Device Physics, Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Pedram Khalili
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Device Physics, Quantum Sensing, Condensed Matter Physics
Jens Koch
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Computing, Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Information
Timothy Kovachy
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Sensing, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, High-Energy and Particle Physics
Prem Kumar
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Communication, Quantum Optics, Device Physics, Quantum Sensing
Lincoln Lauhon
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Physical Chemistry, Device Physics
Hooman Mohseni
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Sensing, Device Physics, Nanomechanics
Kenneth Poeppelmeier
Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Physical Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Topological Physics, Inorganic and Solid State Chemistry
James Rondinelli
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Device Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Topological Physics
James Sauls
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Computing, Topological Physics, Device Physics
Richard Schaller
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Physical Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics
Tamar Seideman
Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Physical Chemistry, Nanomechanics
David Seidman
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Nanomechanics
Selim Shahriar
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Sensing, Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Quantum Information, Quantum Optics
Nathaniel Stern
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Optics, Device Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Information
Peter Voorhees
Frank C. Engelhart Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Materials Science of Quantum Materials, Nanomechanics
Michael Wasielewski
Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Physical Chemistry, Quantum Sensing, Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Optics
Emily Weiss
Mark and Nancy Ratner Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Physical Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics
Bruce Wessels
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum Sensing, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics