Marinelli
Matteo joined the group in April 2022. He completed his Ph.D. thesis in the group of Jonathan Home at ETH Zurich, where he investigated the use of mixed-species chains of trapped ions to perform proof-of-principle experiments of quantum error correction and quantum computation. After his Ph.D., he worked at the newly founded ETH-PSI Quantum Computing Hub as the trapped-ion experimental lead scientist, where he conceived and led the construction of the first experimental setup. In the Kaufman lab, in collaboration with the Regal group, Matteo is excited to help construct the cryogenic Rydberg atom array experiment and explore new techniques quantum information processing.
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