Jonathan Home
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Jonathan Home has been an Assistant Professor (tenure track) for Experimental Quantum Optics and Photonics, Physics Department, since 2010. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 1979. He obtained a DPhil Physics from the University of Oxford in 2006. From 2005-2006 he worked as a postdoc, remaining in Oxford for a year, demonstrating the cooling of a two-isotope crystal of calcium ions to the ground state, and studying qubit coherence while the cooling progressed. Postdoc 2006-2010: He worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado.
Research Interest
Quantum state engineering; Simulation; Information processing.