Matthias Mergenthaler           

Dr. Matthias Mergenthaler joined IBM Researh - Zurich in 2018 as a member of the Quantum Technology & Computing group. His research focus is on coherence, novel design and quantum information processing with superconducting circuits.

Prior to joining IBM, Matthias was at the Department of Materials & Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK, where he performed research for his PhD thesis entitled "Hybrid Circuit QED with Spin Ensembles and Carbon Nanotube-Based Superconducting Qubits". His main research interest there was the design, fabrication and execution of experiments on carbon nanotube quantum dot devices, superconducting microwave resonators interacting with spin-ensembles and electrostatically defined Josephson junction qubits based on carbon nanotubes.

Matthias holds an M.Sc. in Physics (with distinction) from Imperial College London, UK, for his experimental thesis research entitled “Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics — Towards cooperativity measurements and superscans of a microcavity” and a B.Sc. in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland. He spent a semester as a visiting undergraduate student at Harvard University, USA.

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