Advisory Team

Welcoming Andrea Morello to Our Scientific Advisory Team

Conductor Quantum is delighted to announce that Professor Andrea Morello has joined our Scientific Advisory Team. Andrea has been pivotal in the development of spin qubits in silicon and his research lies at the frontier of quantum technologies.

His landmark 2010 Nature paper demonstrated the world’s first single-shot readout of an electron spin in silicon.

A few years later, Andrea achieved the longest-lived quantum memory in the solid state. This record is held to this day.

His contributions to science continue outside of the lab. Andrea is a prolific science communicator with his lectures, talks and interviews viewed millions of times across the web. For many of those now entering the field of semiconductor quantum devices, it was most likely an online video featuring Andrea which captured their imagination.

To bring the next generation to the forefront of quantum technology, Andrea was the driving force behind creating the world’s first undergraduate degree in quantum engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia in 2020.

Andrea’s work continues to be pioneering with more world-firsts including the world’s first demonstration of coherent electrical control of a single nuclear spin. As well as being one of the first labs to demonstrate universal 1- and 2-qubit logic operations in silicon with greater than 99% fidelity - a benchmark for fault tolerant quantum computation.

Andrea obtained his PhD in the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory in Leiden (2004). After a postdoc at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, he joined UNSW in 2004. At UNSW, he is the Scientia Professor of Quantum Engineering and Telecommunications, a Program Manager in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) and an Australia Research Council Laureate Fellow.

Over his career, Andrea has been awarded numerous prizes including the Eureka Prize, Malcolm McIntosh Prize, David Syme Prize, Walter Boas Medal, Pollock Memorial Lectureship and the Rolf Landauer and Charles. H. Bennett Award for Quantum Computing.

We are honoured to have Prof. Andrea Morello join the scientific advisory team at Conductor Quantum.