first joined our group as an Erasmus Fellow. After receiving a Master's degree in physics from the Univ. of Vienna, he conducted a PhD thesis in our lab for which he was awarded an ETH Medal in 2010. After a PostDoc in our group he became an IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar and a senior staff scientist in the Painter group at Caltech, USA. In January 2016 he started the Quantum Integrated Devices laboratory at IST Austria.