Since January 2012 Andreas Wallraff is a Full Professor for Solid State Physics in the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich. He joined the department in January 2006 as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in January 2010. Previously, he has obtained degrees in physics from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, U.K., Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Germany and did research towards his Masters degree at the Research Center Jülich, Germany. Read more

Jean-Claude Besse is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined our group in February 2016 to conduct a PhD thesis, with a focus on quantum optics interactions in superconducting circuits. After successfully defending his thesis in January 2021, Jean-Claude remained with the Quantum Device Lab as a PostDoc and since December 2021 as a Senior Assistant. Previously, Jean-Claude worked on cavity optomechanics in the Painter lab at Caltech and on nanomechanical structures for quantum dots coupling with Imamoglu's group at ETH. Read more

Christoph Hellings joined the Quantum Device Lab in November 2019 as a Postdoc and has been a Senior Assistant since September 2022. He obtained his PhD degree from TU Munich, where he worked on signal processing methods for wireless communication systems as well as on algorithms for nonconvex optimization. His research at the Quantum Device Lab includes signal processing aspects in superconducting circuits and the implementation of high-fidelity quantum logic gates as well as their application in quantum error correction and noisy intermediate-scale quantum algorithms.

Marek Pechal is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined the Quantum Device Lab in September 2020 as a Senior Assistant specializing on superconducting circuit design. After obtaining his bachelor's degree from the Charles University in Prague, Marek had worked in the Quantum Device Lab on a semester thesis and a master thesis project, continuing with a PhD project which he completed in September 2016. Read more

Ilya Besedin is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined the Quantum Device Lab in October 2022 as a Postdoc with a focus on quantum computing with superconducting qubits. He obtained his PhD in April 2022 working on metamaterials built from superconducting qubits, and gates on transmon and fluxonium qubits in Alexey Ustinov's group in MISiS in Russia.

Xi Dai joined the Quantum Device Lab in September 2023 as a Postdoc. His research focuses on quantum optics with superconducting circuits. He obtained his Ph.D. in IQC, Waterloo, working with Adrian Lupascu and focusing on superconducting flux circuits for quantum annealing. Prior to moving to Canada, he obtained an MPhys degree in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford.

Simone joined ETH as a member of the Quantum Device Lab in January 2024. He obtained his Ph.D. in the Advanced Quantum Architectures Laboratory (AQUA) at EPFL in January 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Edoardo Charbon, with a focus on the fabrication of high-kinetic inductance superconducting sensors and electronics. Following his doctoral studies, Simone has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Hybrid Quantum Circuit Laboratory (HQC) led by Prof. Pasquale Scarlino since February 2023, specializing on building kinetic inductance parametric amplifiers. Read more

Johannes Knörzer is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined the Quantum Device Lab as a Postdoc in February 2025. Previously, he was a Junior Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Studies at ETH Zurich. He has worked on topics at the interface of quantum information, quantum optics and condensed-matter physics. He received his PhD from the LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics under the supervision of Ignacio Cirac, where he worked on quantum simulation and semiconductor-based quantum information processing. Read more

Anatoly Kulikov joined the Quantum Device Lab as a PostDoc in January 2021 with focus on quantum communication using superconducting circuits. After receiving his BSc and MSc degrees in theoretical physics from St. Petersburg State University, he joined the SQD Lab in the University of Queensland, Australia for PhD to work with in-situ control over superconducting qubits.

Kevin Reuer started as a PhD student in June 2019, working on quantum optics with superconducting qubits. After successfully defending his thesis in November 2024, Kevin remained in the Quantum Device Lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Prior to his doctorate, he worked on our FPGA-based systems as a Research Assistant. He previously conducted a master thesis project within the ETH Zurich Master program (MSc ETH Physics) in our group.

Andrés Rosario joined the Quantum Device Lab in October 2019 as a Postdoc with focus on hybrid quantum systems combining semiconductor quantum dots with superconducting circuits. During his PhD in Arkady Fedorov's group at the University of Queensland, he studied waveguide QED phenomena with superconducting circuits, with a particular focus on nonreciprocal devices.

Felix Wagner is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined the Quantum Device Lab in February 2024 as a Postdoc with a focus on synergies in the fabrication, control, and their applications between low-temperature detectors and superconducting qubits. He conducted his doctoral research at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He obtained his PhD from TU Vienna, from where he also received master's degrees in Physics and Mathematics. Read more

Ekaterina Al-Tavil joined the Quantum Device Lab in November 2019 as a PhD student with focus on hybrid quantum systems combining semiconductor quantum dots with superconducting circuits. During her Master's she worked in the Quantum coherence lab with Nicolas Roch on Travelling wave parametric amplifiers made from superconducting circuits. Ekaterina obtained her Bachelor degree from the Polytechnical University of Saint Petersburg and her Master of science in Nanophysics from University of Grenoble Alpes.

Liberto Beltran started as a PhD student in April 2023 with a focus on quantum error correction and FPGA development. He completed his Master Studies in Quantum Engineering at ETH, for which he joined us during his Semester Thesis. Previously, Liberto was working as an FPGA and Firmware engineer at Zurich Instruments, where he is continuing to be active during his PhD.

Zih-Yang Chen is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined QuDev in January 2025 as a PhD student focusing on quantum computing with 3D integrated superconducting circuits. He obtained his MSc from KN Chen’s 3D Integrated Circuits Lab at NYCU, Taiwan, where he collaborated with TSMC on developing Ultra-Thin Layer Transfer Technology. Prior to that, he majored in General Relativity and Black Hole Physics at PKU and obtained his BSc in Nano Science & Engineering from NYCU.

Dante Colao joined the Quantum Device Lab in September 2019 for a PhD thesis, after receiving his MSc from CentraleSupélec and BSc from UFRGS. His research focuses on scaling up quantum processors as part of the OpenSuperQ project.

Kieran Dalton is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined the Quantum Device Lab in October 2022 for a PhD thesis. He previously completed his MSc in Physics at the University of Cambridge, with a master’s project on quantum computational chemistry.

Jakob Ekert is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He started as a PhD student in April 2024. His research focus is quantum error correction using superconducting qubits. Jakob previously conducted a semester project and master thesis project within the ETH Zurich Master program (MSc ETH Physics) in our group working on the surface code.

Alexander Grigorev joined the Quantum Device Lab in October 2022 for a PhD thesis with focus on quantum optics interaction in superconducting circuits. He obtained his Master's degree in a joint project of NUST MISIS and KIT IPE during which he was working on correlation measurement of superconducting circuits using RFSoC devices. After that, he spent a year working at Oxford Quantum Circuits as an FPGA Engineer.

Dominic Hagmann is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined the Quantum Device Lab in February 2024 as a PhD student working on fabrication related device aspects. Previously, he carried out his master's thesis in our group within the ETH Zurich Master program (MSc ETH Quantum Engineering).

Alonso Hernández-Antón started as a PhD student in September 2023. He supported us as a Research Assistant during June 2023. Previously he carried out his master's thesis in our group on the generation of multipartite entangled photonic states, and a semester thesis on the indirect detection of tunable couplers.

Ian Hesner is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He started as a PhD student in March 2024 with a focus in Quantum Error Correction. Previously, he worked on implementing and benchmarking Floquet codes with superconducting circuits at IBM Research in Rüschlikon for his master’s thesis (ETH MSc Quantum Engineering), as well as completing an internship at Zurich Instruments focused on exploring distributed decoding techniques.

Luca Hofele started as a PhD student in April 2023 with a focus on quantum error correction and software development. He previously conducted his master thesis in our group and participated in an advanced QuanTech Workshop within the ETH Zurich Master program (MSc ETH Quantum Engineering).

Michael Kerschbaum is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He started as a PhD student in November 2020. Michael previously conducted a semester project and a master thesis project within the ETH Zurich Master programme (MSc ETH Physics) in our group.

Nathan Lacroix started as a PhD student in September 2020, with a focus on near term quantum algorithms and quantum software development. He previously conducted his master thesis in our group on the topic of variational quantum algorithms using a continuous gate set.

Colin Scarato joined the Quantum Device Lab in March 2020 to carry out his master's thesis internship, and is currently continuing his activity as a PhD student. He previously received master's degrees at INSA Lyon and the University of Paris. His research focus is quantum machine learning using superconducting qubits, as part of the Quromorphic collaboration.

Josua Schär started as a PhD student in October 2024. Previously he carried out his master's thesis on heralded remote entanglement in our group in Autumn 2019. Afterwards he supported the group with his technical expertise and was involved in research in microwave-based quantum networks.

Yongxin Song is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He rejoined the Quantum Device Lab in July 2022 for a PhD thesis. Previously, he participated in an advanced QuanTech Workshop within the ETH Zurich Master program (MSc ETH Quantum Engineering) in February 2020. Afterwards, he worked in the Quantum Device Lab on a semester thesis and then on a master’s thesis. In addition, he was supporting us as a Research Assistant during March and April 2020 and from January to March 2022.

François Swiadek joined the Quantum Device Lab in August 2019 for a PhD thesis. His research focuses on superconducting quantum computing. Previously, François worked on cavity optomechanics at Thales, on nanophotonic cavity QED with Lukin's group at Harvard and on a trapped-atom clock at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel at ENS Paris. He obtained a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from ESPCI Paris, and completed a Master of Science at ENS Paris.

Francesca Bay is the Teamleader Administration and Project Management at the Quantum Device Lab, which she joined in 2010. She is also coordinating the financial and administrative aspects of the Quantum Center at ETH Zurich since its inauguration in 2020 and the Superconducting Circuits group of the ETH Zurich-PSI Quantum Computing Hub. Francesca holds a PhD from the Institute of Geophysics at ETH Zurich and a CAS in Research Management from the University of Bern.

Cindy Donati joined the Quantum Device Lab in October 2018. She worked in various administrative positions as well as in the public relations for the University of Lucerne and did further educations in the area of languages, HR and sports.

Galia Messikommer joined the Quantum Device Lab and the Quantum Center in November 2023. She previously worked in various administrative positions and as a special education teaching assistant.

Kadir Akin is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. Hejoined our group as a postdoc in October 2016. The focus of his research is on the design and implementation of very-high-speed and efficient FPGA-based systems to achieve real-time quantum information processing. Kadir obtained his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in May 2015 from EPFL, Switzerland, and stayed there as a postdoc in the Microelectronic Systems Laboratory, before joining our group. Read more

Mohsen Bahrami Panah is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined the Quantum Device Lab as a Technical Expert specialized in device micro- and nano-fabrication in September 2021. Prior to this position, Mohsen was the head of the cleanroom processes at LSPR AG in Zürich since October 2015. Read more

Marius joined the Quantum Device Lab in January 2025. During his PhD at ETH Zurich, he worked with Prof. Yiwen Chu on the creation of macroscopic quantum states in a quantum acoustic system coupled to superconducting qubit. During his MSc at ETH Zurich, he conducted his Master thesis in the Quantum Device Lab on the automated calibration routines for two-qubit gates.

Felix Henrich is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined the Quantum Device Lab in February 2025 as a Device Fabrication Engineer. Prior to joining our group, he obtained his MSc in Physics from Heidelberg University, where he conducted his Master's thesis on Josephson parametric amplifiers.

Norbert Meier is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined the Quantum Device Lab in October 2024 as a Process Engineer and continues to work for the FIRST team at ETH Hönggerberg, in both positions with a workload of 40%.

Roland Siegbert is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined the Quantum Device Lab in November 2023 as a Software Engineer. Roland obtained his PhD degree from RWTH Aachen University working at the Chair for Computational Analysis of Technical Systems (CATS) with a focus on mathematical optimization and non-linear PDEs using highly parallel iterative solvers. Before and after this, he gained experience in tech leadership, software engineering and data scientist roles in the industry.

Hon-Ming Yip joined the Quantum Device Lab as a Systems Engineer in January 2025. He earned his PhD in Microsystems and Microelectronics from EPFL, where he specialised in microfabrication and microfluidics. By training, he is a Mechatronic Engineer. In our group, he focuses on optimising cryogenic packaging for superconducting parametric amplifiers and supporting micro- and nanofabrication processes.

Alain Fauquex joined QuDev in April 2019 as a technician and design engineer after completing an apprenticeship at Pilatus Aircraft Ltd, where he worked on the Pilatus PC-24 business jet. Since then, he has completed a bachelor's degree in physics at ETH Zürich and rejoined QuDev in March 2025, until starting his doctoral studies in physics at the University of California, Berkeley, in July 2025.

Lab responsible PSI and Technician with focus on cryogenics. Raphael Keller is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined the Quantum Device Lab in July 2021 after he worked for the Quantum Device Lab from 2016 to 2018. Previously he completed an apprenticeship as a polymechanic and a part-time continuing education in Mechatronic Systems Engineering. Between 2018 and 2021 Raphael has worked for Santex Rimar Group as a design engineer.

Niti Kohli is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined the Quantum Device Lab in October 2019 as part of the project teams working on SuperQuNet and OpenSuperQ. After graduation in 2015 with a Bachelor's degree of Science ZFH in mechanical engineering from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) Niti started his career as Mechanical Engineer for the company P3 group AG in Schwerzenbach.

Lab technician at ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computer Hub. Flavio Müller will join the Quantum Device Lab in August 2025. From 2020 to 2024 he completed an apprenticeship as a polymechanic at the Paul Scherrer Institute and has worked there for one year. In September 2025, he will start his studies in mechanical engineering at FHNW.

Lab technician at ETH Zurich – PSI Quantum Computer Hub. Manuel Werner is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined the Superconducting Circuits team in August 2023. After finishing his apprenticeship at the H. Rüetschi AG bell foundry in 2016, he served his duty in the Swiss military and underwent training as a platoon leader for Swiss rescue troops.

Philippe Girardin joined the Quantum Device Lab during the Fall Semester 2024 for a Master’s thesis project within the ETH Zurich Master program (MSc ETH Quantum Engineering). He was previously in our group for a semester project entitled "Extending an RFSoC FPGA-based Measurement System for Superconducting Qubits" as part of his Master’s education (MSc ETH Quantum Engineering).

Chrysander Hagen joined the Quantum Device Lab in the Spring Semester 2024 for a master’s thesis project within the ETH Zurich Master programme. He was previously in our group for a semester project entitled "High-kinetic Inductance Resonators for Double Quantum Dots" within the ETH Zurich Master programme (MSc ETH Physics).

Jonathan Trebst joined the Quantum Device Lab in September 2024 during a 12-month internship as part of his master studies at the University of Bonn in Germany.

Vivek Dhande joined the Quantum Device Lab in September 2024 for his 8-month Bachelor's thesis as part of his studies in Engineering Science (Engineering Physics) at the University of Toronto in Canada. Previously, he worked on quantum device design (and fabrication) for semiconducting quantum dots at UofT (and UBC) as well as completed an internship at Xanadu focused on developing software for hardware tools.

Thomas Gratz joined the Quantum Device Lab during the Spring Semester 2025 for a Bachelor’s thesis project within the ETH Zurich Bachelor programme (BSc ETH Electrical Engineering and Information Technology).

Yesaya Lumbantoruan joined the Quantum Device Lab during the Spring Semester 2025 for a Bachelor’s thesis project within the ETH Zurich Bachelor programme (BSc ETH Electrical Engineering and Information Technology).

Susan Filisetti will join the Quantum Device Lab in July 2025 to support us as a Research Assistant. She previously worked on bosonic quantum error correction codes in the Trapped Ion Quantum Information group to carry out a semester project within the MSc. Quantum Engineering at ETH.

Jan Obermeier rejoined the Quantum Device Lab in March 2025 to support us as a Research Assistant. He first joined the group for the Spring Semester 2023 to carry out a semester project within the ETH Zurich Bachelor programme (BSc ETH Interdisciplinary Sciences). 

Matteo Bellino joined the Quantum Device Lab for the Spring Semester 2025 to carry out a semester project within the ETH Zurich Master programme (MSc ETH Physics).

Timo Gehring joined the Quantum Device Lab for the Fall Semester 2024 to carry out a semester project within the ETH Zurich Master programme (MSc ETH Physics).

Mattéo Maury joined the Quantum Device Lab for the Spring Semester 2025 to carry out a semester project within the ETH Zurich Master programme (MSc ETH Quantum Engineering).

Guillermo Muñoz joined the Quantum Device Lab for the Spring Semester 2025 to carry out a semester project within the ETH Zurich Master programme (MSc ETH Quantum Engineering).

Ernesto Ramos Pérez joined the Quantum Device Lab for the Spring Semester 2025 to carry out a semester project within the ETH Zurich Master programme (MSc ETH Quantum Engineering).

Tilly Schaaf joined the Quantum Device Lab for the Spring Semester 2025 to carry out a semester project within the ETH Zurich Master programme (MSc ETH Physics).