EVA DUPONT-FERRIER

Eva Dupont-Ferrier is a professor at the Physics department at Université de Sherbrooke and member of Institut quantique. She is an expert in solid state quantum information and her research interests involve the development of innovative devices for quantum information processing. Eva holds a double degree in Physics and Engineering from Université Joseph Fourier and ENSP Grenoble (France). After her PhD at CNRS, she did a postdoc at Rutgers University (USA) where
she investigated topological protection of superconducting quantum circuits, for which she was awarded the Block prize. Coming back to Grenoble she focused her research on quantum defects, such as dopants in semiconductors. She demonstrated that transistors from semiconductor industry could perform in a quantum regime making use of embedded single and coupled dopants, a milestone to turn the building blocks of conventional semiconductor electronics into working quantum devices for the next generation of computers. Using the spin of these quantum defects she also explored new functionalities arising from hybridization with mechanical modes. As a Marie Curie Fellow in University College London she explored the coupling between spins of dopants and superconducting circuits.