Michael J. Biercuk
Professor of quantum physics and quantum technology
Michael J. Biercuk (born 1978 or 1979) is Professor of Quantum Physics and Quantum technology at the University of Sydney, and the CEO and Founder of Q-CTRL, a venture-capital-backed quantum technology company. In his academic role he is a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems.
He held a research fellowship in the Ion Storage Group at NIST, Boulder and has served as a full-time technical consultant to DARPA, helping to steer government investments in quantum information advanced computer architectures. Biercuk is a TEDx speaking alumnus, winner of the 2015 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher and the 2011 NMI prize for excellence in measurement science.
Early life
Biercuk was born and raised in New York City. He earned his undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Master’s and Doctorate degrees from Harvard University. He moved to Australia in 2010.
Career and research
Current activities
Biercuk’s research is focused on a field called quantum control – learning how to put exotic systems obeying the laws of quantum physics to work for the creation of new technologies. He is an experimentalist, developing and testing new quantum control techniques using quantum computing hardware built from trapped atomic ions.
As the Director of the Quantum Control Laboratory at the University of Sydney’s Nanoscience Hub, Biercuk is using tools such as superposition (single particles in two states at once) and entanglement (two particles inextricably linked at a distance) in control and measurement technology.
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