Richard Boell joined the Quantum Device Lab during the Fall Semester 2020 for a Master-thesis project entitled "A Net-Zero Continuous Gate Set for Variational Quantum Algorithms" within the ETH Zurich Master programme (MSc ETH Physics). He was previously in our group for a semester project as part of his Master education (MSc ETH Physics) and supported us afterwards as a Research Assistant from September 2019 to May 2020.