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Guido Burkard | |
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| Nationality | Swiss |
| Education | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology University of Basel |
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| Institutions | RWTH Aachen University University of Basel University of Konstanz |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel Loss |
Guido Burkard is a Swiss physicist specializing in condensed-matter theory and quantum information. He is a full professor at the University of Konstanz, Germany, a position he has held since 2008. [1]
Burkard academic background includes a degree in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and a Ph.D. from the University of Basel in 2001.[ citation needed ]
Burkard was a faculty member at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and served as an SNF assistant professor at the University of Basel. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.[ citation needed ]
His research focuses on the theory of solid-state qubits and hybrid quantum systems, contributing to advancements in quantum information science. [2] Burkard proposed methods to perform quantum gate operations on spin qubits and couple spin qubits to photons. [3]
In 2024, the American Physical Society elected him as one of its Fellows. [4]
Burkard has contributed to academic publishing as a member of the editorial board for Materials for Quantum Technology and previously served on the editorial board for Scientific Reports. He was also a Coordinating Founding Editor for Quantum. [5] He is currently a Member of the editorial board of PRX Quantum. [6]
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