Editors of PRX Quantum

Katiuscia N. Cassemiro, Chief Editor

American Physical Society, USA

Katiuscia has vast experience in cutting-edge research and technology, having implemented several photonic platforms enabling new studies of quantum characteristics of light. She received her Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She held a Humboldt fellowship and is awarded the “For Women in Science" prize (L’Oréal-UNESCO—Brazilian component). She obtained her tenured professorship position early in her career at the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil). Katiuscia joined APS in 2015 as an Assistant Editor with Physical Review A, and in 2019 she joined the team that designed PRX Quantum.

Robin Blume-Kohout, Lead Editor

Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Robin is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, the founder of Sandia’s Quantum Performance Laboratory, and a research professor at the University of New Mexico. After an idyllic childhood in the Alaska Bush, he earned a Ph.D. in physics at UC-Berkeley (2005), then did postdoctoral fellowships at Caltech, the Perimeter Institute, and Los Alamos National Laboratory before joining Sandia in 2012. His research focuses on quantum computation, especially assessing the performance of quantum computers and their components through benchmarking and characterization of physical and logical qubit systems.

Megan Dahlhauser

Megan Dahlhauser, Associate Editor

American Physical Society, USA

Megan obtained her PhD from the University of Tennessee through a joint fellowship program with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she studied quantum information, including characterization and benchmarking of quantum computers. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in the Quantum Performance Laboratory, where she broadened her skills. She joined APS in 2024 as an Associate Editor with PRX Quantum.

Nicolò Forcellini

Nicolò Forcellini, Associate Editor

American Physical Society, USA

Nicolò completed his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Cambridge (UK). His main interests are in the fields of open and nonequilibrium quantum systems, topological phases, quantum simulation, and quantum computing. After working as a postdoctoral fellow (2021–2023) and as a research scientist (2023–2025) at the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences (China), he joined PRX Quantum and Physical Review A as an Associate Editor in 2025.

Alejandro Gonzalez-Tudela

Alejandro Gonzalez-Tudela, Associate Editor

Institute of Fundamental Physics, Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Spain

Alejandro González Tudela is a tenured scientist at the Institute of Fundamental Physics, Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Spain. He received his Ph.D. from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2013, and became tenured in 2018. He received the Early Career Award from the New Journal of Physics in 2017 and the Novel Investigator Prize in Theoretical Physics from the Royal Spanish Physical Society-BBVA in 2018. His research interests are in quantum optics and nanophotonics, with applications in quantum information and simulation.

Matteo Ippoliti

Matteo Ippoliti, Associate Editor

University of Texas at Austin, USA

Matteo Ippoliti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 2019. Before moving to UT Austin, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. In 2023 he received the McMillan Award in condensed matter physics (Department of Physics, UIUC). His research lies at the interface of condensed matter and quantum information theory, focusing on the structure and dynamics of quantum information in many-body systems.

Guglielmo Mazzola

Guglielmo Mazzola, Associate Editor

University of Zürich, Switzerland

Guglielmo is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Computational Science at the University of Zürich. He obtained his Ph.D. in Theory and Simulation of Condensed Matter at SISSA, Trieste, Italy. He was recently awarded an Eccellenza fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. His research interests include the development of quantum algorithms for condensed matter systems, as well as working on state-of-the-art "conventional" algorithms to solve quantum many-body problems, especially quantum Monte Carlo and machine learning.

Sara Mouradian

Sara Mouradian, Associate Editor

University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Mouradian is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. She obtained her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where her dissertation won the Dimitris N. Chorafas Award and the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory Award. Before moving to UW, she was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include all aspects of building quantum technologies at the scale useful for real-world applications. She currently focuses on the optical, electronic, and control challenges facing trapped ions.

Bartosz Regula

Bartosz Regula, Associate Editor

RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing, Japan

Bartosz is a team leader at the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing in Japan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham, after which he was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and subsequently a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tokyo. His research is concerned with the mathematical underpinnings of quantum information theory, with a particular focus on the investigation of the structure of quantum resources.

Maximilian Rimbach-Russ

Maximilian Rimbach-Russ, Associate Editor

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Maximilian Rimbach-Russ is a group leader at QuTech, Delft University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical quantum and semiconductor physics from the University of Konstanz in 2019 and subsequently completed a postdoc in experimental groups at QuTech. He was awarded a NWO Veni Fellowship (2021) and a NWO Vidi Grant (2025). His research focuses on semiconductor spin-based quantum technologies, developing effective models tailored to experimental needs, designing novel qubits, predicting new host materials, and deriving quantum optimal control strategies.

Juzar Thingna

Juzar Thingna, Associate Editor

American Physical Society, USA

Juzar received his Ph.D. in 2013 from the National University of Singapore. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Augsburg, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, University of Luxembourg, and University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He was a group leader at the Institute of Basic Science in South Korea. Juzar joined APS in 2023 as an Associate Editor with PRX Quantum and Physical Review Applied.

Chen Wang

Chen Wang, Associate Editor

University of Toronto, Canada

Chen Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2012. He was an assistant professor and then an associate professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2016 to 2026, and earlier a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Quantum Institute. Chen is a recipient of the DOE Early Career Award and Young Investigator Awards from AROSR and ARO. His research interest is in experimental development of quantum information technologies, with a focus on quantum computing with superconducting circuits.

Editorial Board

Alexandre Blais

Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

Alexandre Blais is a professor of physics at the Université de Sherbrooke, where he is Scientific Director of the Institut quantique and holds the Chair on Quantum Computer Architectures. His theoretical research focuses on superconducting quantum circuits for quantum information processing and microwave quantum optics. He has contributed to the foundations of circuit quantum electrodynamics and to its development as one of the leading platforms for quantum computing. He is co-chair of the Advisory Council for Canada’s National Quantum Strategy and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His research has been recognized by NSERC’s Steacie Prize, the Canadian Association of Physicists’ Herzberg and Brockhouse Medals, the Rutherford Memorial Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Annabelle Bohrdt

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

Annabelle Bohrdt is a professor of theoretical physics at LMU Munich. Her research develops and applies novel theoretical, numerical, and machine-learning methods to understand strongly interacting quantum many-body systems, with particular emphasis on strongly correlated electrons, doped Fermi-Hubbard systems, quantum magnets, and ultracold-atom quantum simulators. Her work combines condensed matter theory with close connections to quantum simulation experiments, using tools such as neural networks, Hamiltonian reconstruction, and interpretable analysis of quantum matter data to probe equilibrium and nonequilibrium many-body phenomena.

Guido Burkard

University of Konstanz, Germany

Guido Burkard is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Konstanz, Germany. After obtaining his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Basel, Switzerland, he was a research scholar at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center before joining the faculty at the University of Basel, RWTH Aachen University, and then at the University of Konstanz. His research is devoted to the physics of quantum computing, specifically in systems that can efficiently store, process, and transmit quantum information, with a focus on solid-state and hybrid quantum systems.

Philippe Campagne-Ibarcq

École Normale Supérieure, France

Philippe Campagne-Ibarcq completed his Ph.D. in physics at École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France). His research focuses on superconducting circuits, quantum error correction, and continuous quantum measurement and control. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University (USA), he joined École Normale Supérieure as an Inria research scientist, where he leads experimental efforts in circuit quantum electrodynamics and bosonic quantum codes.

Giulio Chiribella

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Giulio Chiribella is the director of QICI Quantum Information and Computation Initiative at the School of Computing and Data Science of The University of Hong Kong. He has done pioneering research on quantum causality, on the information-theoretic foundations of quantum theory, and on the ultimate precision limits of quantum measurements, for which he was awarded the Hermann Weyl Prize 2010. In 2020 and 2018 he received Senior Research Fellowships from the Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC) and from the Croucher Foundation, respectively. He currently serves as an elected member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences and a Young Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. Before joining the University of Hong Kong, he held faculty positions at Oxford University and Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Yiwen Chu

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Yiwen Chu is an assistant professor at ETH Zürich. Her research focuses on hybrid quantum systems that combine mechanical resonators with superconducting circuits, optics, and spin qubits. These systems are useful for quantum information processing, quantum sensing, and studies of fundamental physics. Yiwen is a recipient of the Sackler Prize in Physics and the ETH Zürich Latsis University Prize.

Bill Fefferman

University of Chicago, USA

Bill Fefferman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (2020), a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (2018), and a Google Scholar Award (2022). Before joining the University of Chicago, he held research positions at the University of Maryland/NIST and the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech. His research explores the power of quantum computers in both the near term and the indefinite future.

Michael J. Gullans

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA

Michael Gullans is a Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) at NIST, where he is a research physicist, and University of Maryland, College Park, where he is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Physics and the Department of Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2013. He did postdoctoral work at NIST and Princeton University prior to joining QuICS in 2020. His research interests center on quantum error correction, many-body physics, quantum tomography, and semiconductor spin qubits. A common theme in his research is understanding the role of randomness, noise and disorder in many-body quantum systems using methods from statistical physics.

Aram Harrow

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Aram Harrow is a Professor of Physics at MIT. Previously he worked at the University of Bristol and the University of Washington in math and computer science departments. His research focuses on quantum information and computing theory. He works to understand the capabilities of the quantum computers and quantum communication devices we will build in the future, and in the process, he creates connections to other areas of theoretical physics, mathematics and computer science.

Zoë Holmes

Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne, Switzerland

Zoë Holmes is an Assistant Professor of Physics at EPFL in Lausanne. She received her MPhil in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford and her Ph.D. from Imperial College London before moving to Los Alamos National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher and Mark Kac Fellow. Her research investigates when quantum algorithms can offer an advantage, when classical methods remain competitive, and how the two can best be combined, particularly for problems in fundamental science.

Hsin-Yuan (Robert) Huang

California Institute of Technology, USA

Hsin-Yuan (Robert) Huang is the CTO at Oratomic and an Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech. He completed his Ph.D. at Caltech under John Preskill and Thomas Vidick. His research leverages learning theory and learning algorithms to advance quantum computation, physics, and information science, with contributions including classical shadow tomography, machine learning for quantum many-body problems, and quantum advantages in learning from experiments. He is a recipient of the Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize for the most original Caltech doctoral thesis of 2024 and the William H. Hurt Scholar endowed professorship.

Isaac Kim

University of California, Davis, USA

Isaac Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis. His research lies at the intersection of quantum information theory and quantum many-body physics. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the Sloan Research Fellowship.

Christina Knapp

Microsoft Station Q/Azure Quantum, USA

Christina Knapp is a senior researcher at Microsoft Station Q/Azure Quantum working on Majorana-based quantum computing. She is a theorist whose research interests include topological quantum computing, topological phases, quantum error correction, and qubit control. After receiving her Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2019, she was a Burke fellow in condensed matter theory at Caltech before joining Azure Quantum. She is currently a member of the Science Advisory Board for the Quantum Science Center.

Shimon Kolkowitz

University of California, Berkeley, USA

Shimon Kolkowitz is an Associate Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley. He graduated with distinction from Stanford University in 2008 and earned his Ph.D. in experimental physics from Harvard University in 2015. He was subsequently a National Research Council (NRC) postdoctoral fellow at JILA/NIST/CU Boulder from 2015 to 2017. From 2018 to 2023, he held a faculty position in the Department of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2023. He is an experimental atomic physicist and quantum scientist whose research focuses on precision measurement, quantum sensing, and metrology.

Kosuke Mitarai

Osaka University, Japan

Kosuke Mitarai completed his doctoral program at the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University. In 2018, he co-founded QunaSys, a quantum software startup. Since 2020, he has been serving as an assistant professor at Osaka University and in 2023, he was promoted to associate professor. Throughout his career, he has focused on developing algorithms for applying quantum computers to real-world problems. His interests specifically lie in quantum simulation and quantum machine learning.

Galan Moody

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Galan Moody is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He leads the Quantum Photonics Lab, which develops integrated photonic technologies for quantum computing, communications, and sensing. Before joining UCSB, he was an NRC postdoctoral fellow (2013-2015) and research scientist (2015-2019) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, developing quantum dot nanophotonic devices. He received B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Colorado in 2008 and 2013, respectively. He is a recipient of the AFOSR YIP award, an NSF CAREER award, the Superlattices, Nanostructures, and Nanodevices Young Investigator award, and is a senior member of Optica and IEEE.

Markus Müller

RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

Markus Müller is a professor leading the Research Group for the Theory of Scalable Quantum Information Processing jointly at RWTH Aachen University and the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, where he is scientific director of the Peter-Grünberg Institute 2. He works in quantum information processing and quantum simulation of many-body quantum physics using atomic, molecular and optical systems as well as solid-state-based quantum systems. A main focus of his theory research is on quantum error correction and quantum fault-tolerance, applicable to a variety of physical hardware platforms and often driving advances in close collaboration with leading experimental partners in the field.

John Nichol

University of Rochester, USA

John Nichol is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BA from St. Olaf College. Nichol investigates the quantum mechanics of nanoscale objects, especially individual electrons in semiconductor quantum dots. Nichol's current research focuses on improving the coherence of electron spin qubits using new materials and control methods, exploring new ways to transfer quantum information between distant spin qubits, and many-body quantum coherence in spin chains. Nichol is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and a Google Research Scholar Award.

Martí Perarnau-Llobet

Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Martí Perarnau-Llobet is a Research Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. He received his Ph.D. from ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels (Spain) in 2016. His research interests encompass various topics in quantum and stochastic thermodynamics, quantum metrology and quantum information. He has been awarded a Ramón y Cajal fellowship in 2023, an SNF Ambizione grant in 2019, a Humboldt fellowship in 2016, and the NJP Early Career Researcher Award in 2020.

Andreas Reiserer

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Andreas Reiserer is a professor of Quantum Networks at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Garching, Germany, since 2022. During his Ph.D. at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany, he worked on cavity-enhanced quantum networks with single atoms in optical resonators. In 2014, he joined Qutech in Delft, the Netherlands, to study nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond. He returned to MPQ in 2016 as a research group leader, working on quantum interfaces based on individual erbium dopants, with the goal to establish a novel platform for distributed quantum information processing. His research interests are in quantum optics and nanophotonics, with applications in quantum computing, quantum communication, and quantum networking.

Renato Renner

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Renner studied physics, first at EPF Lausanne and later at ETH Zurich, where he graduated in theoretical physics. He then moved to the Computer Science Department to work on a thesis in quantum cryptography. After getting his Ph.D., he spent two years in the UK, where he was an HP research fellow in the Department for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. In 2007, he started his current position as a Professor for Theoretical Physics at ETH Zurich. His research areas include quantum information theory and the foundations of physics, particularly questions at the interface between quantum and gravity theory.

Christian Schmiegelow

University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Christian Schmiegelow is Director of the Cold Ion and Atoms Laboratory at the University of Buenos Aires and CONICET, Argentina. He specializes in atom-light interactions, including structured light beams and standing waves. His current research focuses on quantum information, quantum simulations, and quantum thermodynamics. He conducted his Ph.D. research in experimental quantum physics with single photons at the University of Buenos Aires and CITEDEF, Argentina, and later worked with trapped ions in the Schmidt-Kaler Group at the University of Mainz, Germany. He has received the ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award for significant contributions to Optics and Photonics, as well as the National Academy of Sciences (Argentina) Enrique Gaviola Award for young researchers in physics.

Francesco Tacchino

University of Pavia, Italy

Francesco Tacchino is an Assistant Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Pavia, Italy. He received his Ph.D. in 2020, after which he joined the IBM Research laboratory in Zurich, initially as a postdoctoral fellow and later as a permanent member of the research staff, before returning to academia in 2026. His work focuses on the development and implementation of quantum algorithms and digital quantum simulations for condensed matter and high-energy physics. In parallel, he investigates the theory and applications of quantum machine learning. His broader scientific interests include the design of novel architectures for information processing, quantum optics, and theoretical biology.

Lorenza Viola

Dartmouth College, USA

Lorenza Viola is the James Frank Family Professor of Physics at Dartmouth College. After obtaining her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Padua, Italy, in 1996, she was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT and a J. R. Oppenheimer Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory before joining Dartmouth in 2004. Her research covers a broad range of problems in quantum information physics and quantum statistical mechanics, including methods for noise characterization and control in open quantum systems and quantum computation, quantum sensing and metrology, driven-dissipative quantum matter, and entanglement.

Mattia Walschaers

CNRS, France

Mattia Walschaers is a research scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In 2016, he received a joint Ph.D. from the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany, and KU Leuven in Belgium, for his dissertation on statistical benchmarks for Boson Sampling. Since then, he has been working at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris, initially as a postdoctoral researcher and, since 2019, as a permanent researcher. His research focuses on continuous-variable quantum optics and quantum information theory. He is an expert in non-Gaussian quantum states of light, entanglement in continuous-variable quantum systems, and photonic quantum computing.

Sebastian Will

Columbia University, USA

Sebastian Will is an Associate Professor of Physics at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Mainz, Germany, and was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT before joining Columbia. His research focuses on ultracold atoms and molecules for applications in fundamental science, quantum simulation, quantum computing, and quantum networking. Current projects include Bose-Einstein condensation of dipolar molecules and the development of scalable atomic tweezer arrays. He is the recipient of the MIT Infinite Kilometer Award, the Columbia RISE Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Sloan Research Fellowship.

Feihu Xu

University of Science and Technology of China, China

Feihu Xu is a Professor of Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Before joining USTC in 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT from 2015 to 2017. He received an M.A.Sc and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2011 and 2015, respectively. His research covers quantum communication, quantum network, quantum-enhanced imaging and sensing. He is a fellow of Optica, a Changjiang Scholar, and the recipient of the International Quantum Technology Early Career Scientist Award and the Xplorer Prize.

Zhen-Sheng Yuan

University of Science and Technology of China, China

Zhen-Sheng Yuan is a Professor of Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received his Ph.D. from USTC and subsequently worked at Heidelberg University as a postdoctoral researcher, Humboldt Fellow, and senior researcher. His research focuses on quantum simulation experiments aimed at understanding key problems in emergent phenomena, topological properties, and non-equilibrium dynamics of strongly correlated synthetic quantum matter, particularly ultracold atomic systems studied through microscopic manipulation and measurement techniques. He was selected as a New Cornerstone Investigator in 2025.

Adam Zalcman

Google Quantum AI, USA

Adam Zalcman is an Engineering Manager at Google Quantum AI, where he leads research and development in quantum error correction and quantum compiling. His work bridges experimental demonstrations of early fault tolerance with theoretical advances toward large-scale quantum computation. Beyond fault tolerance, he conducts research on quantum algorithms and their practical applications. His broader research interests include quantum biology, the foundations of quantum mechanics, and number theory.

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