News and highlights
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 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 joins the group as new Postdoc.
August 2019
Roksolana Kozak joins the group as new Postdoc.
July 2019
Maria del Mar Carulla Areste joins the group as new Postdoc.
July 2019
Bill Pedrini joins the group as new scientist and project leader of the Cristallina project.
1 July 2019
1 June 2019
Simon Gerber becomes the new interim leader of the QT group. Hans Sigg remains active in a senior advisor role.
April 2019
The QT group held its annual internal seminar in Hospental.
January 2019
Guy Matmon joins the group as new tenure-track scientist.
Nicolò d'Anna joins the group as new PhD student.
April 2018
The QT group held its annual internal seminar in Hospental.
March 2018
Alexey Lyasota joins the QT Group as new Postdoc.
October 2017
Jakub Vonka joins the QT Group and the Laboratory for Neutron and Muon Instrumentation (LIN) as new 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.
SLAC press release
PSI press release
Adrian Beckert joins the group as new PhD student.
The Symposium on Direct Band Gap Group 4 Photonics successfully took place at PSI.
The QT group held its annual internal seminar at Rigi Kaltbad.
Joe Martin Bailey joins the group as new Postdoc.
Francesco Armand Pilon joins the group as new PhD student.
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.