Prof. Yiwen Chu
Associate Professor Department of Physics ETH ZurichCurrent research:
Group Leader of HyQu (Hybrid Quantum Systems Group)Yiwen Chu began her undergraduate studies at MIT, later moving on to Harvard for her PhD in quantum optics with nitrogen-vacancy centers. As a postdoc she investigated circuit QED at Yale.
Starting 2019 she established the Hybrid Quantum Systems Group at the Laboratory for Solid State Physics at ETH Zurich. The group explores connecting different quantum systems.
Her talk at the YPF focuses on one of the group’s main research interests: circuit quantum acoustodynamics.
Prof. Diana Prado Lopes Aude Craik
Assistant Professor Department of Physics ETH ZurichCurrent research:
RAVIOLIS Project, precision isotope-shift spectroscopy of trapped ionsDiana Prado Lopes Aude Craik pursued undergraduate studies in physics at MIT and completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford.
From 2022–2025 she was a post-doctoral research assistant at TIQI (Trapped Ion Quantum Information) ETHZ, where she investigated isotope-shifts and quantum computation with trapped calcium ions.
2025 she has been awarded a SNSF Starting Grant for five years for the RAVIOLIS project. With individual and multiple trapped Barium ions she pushes the precision frontier of the standard model in the low energy regime.
Dr. Gabriel Puebla Hellmann
CEO and Co-Founder QZabreGabriel Puebla Hellmann studied at ETH Zurich, continuing as a PhD student in the Quantum Devices Lab on DC, microwave and optical measurement schemes for nano-scale devices until 2012. As a post doctoral researcher he investigated the use of single-walled carbon nanotubes integrated into microwave circuits.
He continued his work on carbon nanotubes at the University of Basel, having been awarded a NCCR Quantum Systems and Information Technology Directors Fund Grant. 2014-2018 he researched molecular electronics microfluidic devices at IBM Research Zurich.
As a co-founder and the CEO of QZabre he has been developing quantum sensing solutions with nitrogen-vacancy centers since 2018. At the YPF he shares his insights about the technology and workings of the ETH Spin-off.
Prof. Philipp Treutlein
Philipp Treutlein studied in Konstanz and at Stanford. Later he worked at LMU Munich and at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics. His work focuses on atom chips, particularly quantum metrology.
His group at the University of Basel investigates ultracold atoms as a quantum many-body system to push for ‘macroscopic‘ scales of more than a thousand Rubidium atoms in a Bose-Einstein Condensate. His team performs entanglement and decoherence measurements on split atom clouds.
Dr. Matteo Mazzanti
Post-doctoral Research Assistant in the TIQI (Trapped Ion Quantum Information) Group at ETH Zurich
Matteo Mazzanti obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam working on manipulating trapped ions with optical tweezers for quantum computation and simulation.
At TIQI his work focuses on implementing Penning micro-traps for beryllium ions, leveraging individual local harmonic potentials and the motional bus for quantum information processing.
Very recently he has begun exploring implementing waveguides at the challenging deep UV wavelength of 313nm for beryllium sideband cooling and gate operations.
Prof. Johan Chang
Professor Physics Institute at the University of ZurichCurrent research:
Group Leader of the Laboratory for Quantum Matter ResearchJohan Chang began his academic career with undergraduate studies at the University of Copenhagen and an exchange to Nagoya. He received his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from ETH Zurich in 2008. After a Post Doc at Université de Sherbrooke he became an Ambizione fellow at EPFL in 2012. In 2015 he became head of the Laboratory for Quantum Matter Research at the University of Zurich.
His group investigates correlated superconductivity, unconventional charge ordering and further phenomena in solid state materials.
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