Paul Magnard

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Biography

I've been a science and innovation enthusiast since a very young age. During my studies in Centrale Paris and Cambridge, I rapidly developed a passion for quantum physics in general, and it's application to quantum computing in particular. At ETH Zürich, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Wallraff, I devoted my PhD to reject a class of physics theories (called local realistic theories) cherrished by Einstein, using superconducting qubits hosted in separate 10mK refrigerators, 30 meters apart. This fascinating and semi-gigantic project involved prototyping and building large cryogenic systems, setting-up microwave systems with phase-coherence over 30 meters, and pushing the frontiers of quantum computing to entangle remote superconducting qubits deterministically and measure them at record speed. After this, I moved to quantum computing start-up Alice & Bob. I arrived at its early stages of development and saw the company grow from 15 to 100+ people. There I took various responsibilities. First I supervised the building of our first lab. Then I lead the team in charge deploying of Alice & Bob's experimental facilities: chips, instruments, cryostats, etc. Today, I am in charge of building Alice & Bob technological blueprint: a detailed roadmap in coordination with all the teams, setting the milestones of A&B for the next 3 years. And tomorrow ? I hope to see quantum computing go past error-correction and become a useful, impactful technology.