News and Highlights
May 2025
Congratulations to Nicolai Taufertshöfer for receiving a distinction in the 2025 SNSF Scientific Image Competition for a photo of the electron beam evaporator in the PICO cleanroom.
March 2025
Karina Kazarian from the Université Paris-Saclay joins the group as a postdoc working on our pulsed magnet project at the SwissFEL Cristallina-Q endstation. Welcome to the QPS group!
October 2024
The "Quantum Magnet Lunch" team met in Amden for our annual retreat to review our ongoing research themes and set the agenda for the coming year.
October 2024
Rok Venturini from the Jožef Stefan Institute and the University of Ljubljana joins the group as a postdoc working on our van der Waals device project. Welcome to the QPS group!
September 2024
Jamie Bragg (visiting PhD student from University College London) and Tijl Degroote (MSc honours project student from TU Delft) join the group.
July 2024
The PSI-UCL-Surrey collaboration on Si/Ge-based quantum devices met at the Fondazione Monte Verità.
May 2024
Kajal Biju from the Manipal Institute of Technology joins the group for an IASTE internship.
March 2024
Sandy Ekahana's paper on charge fractionalisation in a metallic kagome ferromagnet was published in Nature.
February 2024
Nicolai Taufertshöfer from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg joins the group as a PhD student.
February 2024
Congratulations Adrian Rutschmann for winning a prize at the Swiss Quantum Days 2024 for a poster on our recent X-ray-detected ferromagnetic resonance experiment at SwissFEL.
January 2024
Adrian Beckert's paper on highly coherent two-level systems in a noisy and dense quantum network was published in Nature Physics.
December 2023
Maria Szola from the Université Montpellier and the Polish Academy of Sciences joins the group as a postdoc.
November 2023
As a group outing, this year we hiked to the ridge above Würenlingen and enjoyed the view of PSI.
October 2023
Adrian Rutschmann (PhD student) and Henry Bell (MSc thesis) from ETHZ, as well as Peng Han (joint postdoc with LNO) from the Max Born Institut join the group.
September 2023
Our "Quantum Magnet Lunch" team met for a two-day retreat to review our ongoing research and set the agenda for the coming year.
September 2023
Check out Maël Clémence's #LightSourceSelfie about his PhD project at the Cristallina-Q endstation of SwissFEL.
August 2023
Sandy Ekahana's paper on self-supervised learning to automate image analysis in angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) was published in Machine Learning: Science and Technology.
July 2023
Adil Dogan from ETHZ joins the group for an internship.
June 2023
Savanna Coffel from Harvard University (summer project) and Denis Hnidenko from the Technical University of Košice (IAESTE internship) join the group.
May 2023
Daniel Melvin from the Nanyang Technological University joins the group for a ThinkSwiss internship.
March 2023
Nicolò D'Anna's paper on our new technique for non-destructive X-ray imaging of quantum devices was published in Advanced Electronic Materials.
March 2023
Wenxiang Hu (PhD student) and Theo Wollschlegel (semester project) from ETHZ join the group.
February 2023
Faris Dizdarevic (MSc thesis) and Henry Bell (semester project) from ETHZ join the group.
October 2022
Andrin Doll (project scientist) and Adrian Rutschmann from ETHZ (MSc thesis) join the group.
October 2022
Our "Quantum Magnet Lunch" team has organised a two-day retreat to fly above the details of our daily routine and to revisit our overall vision.
September 2022
Congratulations Nicolò for the successful defense of your PhD on "Low-temperature magneto-transport and X-ray metrology of ultra-thin group V doping layers in silicon: platforms for quantum science and technology"!
September 2022
Adrian Beckert's crystal field paper was published in Physical Review B.
September 2022
A Swiss-French pulsed magnetic field retreat was held at PSI to discuss technical developments and upcoming commissioning/pilot experiments.
July 2022
Francesco Armand Pilon's strained germanium lasing paper was published in Physical Review Research.
July 2022
Congratulation and farewell to Alex Grimm for having been promoted to lead an independent group on Bosonic Quantum Information as a part of LNQ.
April 2022
Alessandro Bruno and Maël Clémence from ETHZ join the group as PhD students.
March 2022
Congratulations to the Cristallina team for achieving the "first light" milestone on 14.03.2021 - one day ahead of schedule.
March 2022
Tristan Kuttner from ETHZ joins the group for his MSc thesis.
February 2022
Our solution to produce coherent copies of X-ray pulses was published in PNAS.
January 2022
Congratulations Alex for scoring an ERC Starter Grant on coherent operation of a logical concatenated CAT qubit (COOLCCAT)!
January 2022
With the creation of the new Laboratories for X-ray Nanoscience & Technologies (LXN) and Nano & Quantum Technologies (LNQ) the group changes its name from Quantum Technologies (QT) to Quantum Photon Science (QPS).
November 2021
Finally again, the QT group organized a group outing and hiked across Lägern.
November 2021
Corinna Burri from ETHZ (PhD student) and Sandy Ekahana (postdoc) join the group.
October 2021
Simon Gerber's Colloquium paper was published in Reviews of Modern Physics.
October 2021
Tianyang Shen from the University of Oxford (PhD student) and Tristan Kuttner from ETHZ (semester project) join the group.
September 2021
Dr. Nelson Hua from UC San Diego joins the QT and Quantum Criticality & Dynamics Groups as a PSI Fellow. Francesco Adinolfi from ETHZ and Aidan McConnell from the University of Cambridge join the group as PhD students.
July 2021
Lise Hanson from the Technical University of Denmark joins the group as summer student.
July 2021
Simon Gerber has been promoted to permanent leader of the QT group.
June 2021
Congratulations Adrian for the successful defense of your PhD on "Localized two-level systems in rare-earth fluorides"!
June 2021
Jan Ravnik’s quantum billiards paper was published in Nature Communications.
April 2021
Jan Ravnik’s ‘dynamical’ phase diagram paper was published in Nature Communications.
March 2021
Congratulations Francesco for the successful defense of your PhD on the "strained germanium laser"!
March 2021
Maël Clémence (MSc thesis), Hsueh-yu Kuo and Florian Zangl (semester projects) from ETHZ, as well as Charpoan Kong (internship) join the group.
February 2021
Robert Kälin officially joins the group as technician of the Cristallina endstation.
January 2021
Alexander Steppke officially joins the group as project coordinator for the collaboration of the Cristallina-Q team and the Laboratory of Quantum Matter (LQM) of Prof. Johan Chang at the University of Zurich (UZH).
September 2020
Maël Clémence and Pratyush Anand from ETHZ join the group as semester students.
August 2020
Alexander Grimm’s Kerr-cat qubit paper was published in Nature.
August 2020
Adrian Beckert’s first paper as lead author was published in Optics Express.
June 2020
Leonie Müller joins the group as summer student.
November 2019
Alexander Grimm joins the group as new tenure-track scientist.
November 2019
PSI SiC activities have now been embedded in Dr. Christian David's X-ray optics group.
September 2019
Jan Ravnik from the Jožef Stefan Institute and the University of Ljubljana joins the group as PSI Fellow.
August 2019
Roksolana Kozak from EMPA joins the group as a postdoc.
July 2019
Maria del Mar Carulla Areste from the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona joins the group as a postdoc.
July 2019
Bill Pedrini joins the group as new scientist and project leader of the Cristallina project.
July 2019
June 2019
Simon Gerber becomes the new interim leader of the QT group. Hans Sigg remains active in a senior advisor role.
May 2019
Congratulations Judith for the successful defense of your PhD!
April 2019
The QT group held its annual internal seminar in Hospental.
February 2019
Raphael Perrass joins the group part-time as technician for the low-temperature X-ray scattering projects.
January 2019
Guy Matmon joins the group as new tenure-track scientist.
September 2018
Nicolò d'Anna from ETHZ joins the group as a PhD student.
April 2018
The QT group held its annual internal seminar in Hospental.
March 2018
Alexey Lyasota from EPFL joins the QT Group as postdoc.
October 2017
Jakub Vonka from Lancaster University joins the QT Group and the Laboratory for Neutron and Muon Instrumentation (LIN) as a postdoc.
July 2017
Simon Gerber’s paper was published in Science.
Highly precise measurements of iron selenide show how electrons move in sync with atomic vibrations rippling through the quantum material. The experiments were carried out at the LCLS x-ray free-electron laser of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and at Stanford University.
May 2017
Adrian Beckert from ETHZ joins the group as a PhD student.
The Symposium on Direct Band Gap Group 4 Photonics successfully took place at PSI.
February 2017
The QT group held its annual internal seminar at Rigi Kaltbad.
November 2016
Joe Bailey from the London Centre for Nanotechnology and University College London joins the group as a postdoc.
October 2016
Francesco Armand Pilon from the Università degli Studi di Milano joins the group as a PhD student.
September 2016
Judith Wörle receives Best Student Poster Award at the ECSCRM 2016 in Chalkidiki, Greece.
July 2016
The Quantum Technology group under the lead of Dr. Hans Sigg is formed.