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. After leaving our group, he moved on to the University of California, Berkeley, to pursue a PhD in physics.