Daniel Loss

Daniel Loss is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Basel and director of the Basel Center for Quantum Computing and Quantum Coherence (QC2). He was co-director (2006-2013) of the Swiss National Center of Competence and Research (NCCR) in Nanoscale Science, and from 2006 to 2022 co-director of the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) at the University of Basel. Since 2020 he is co-director (and founding member) of NCCR SPIN QUBITS IN SILICON, a national twelve-year program on quantum computing in semiconductor platforms funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

He received several prestigious fellowships, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He has been awarded the Humboldt Research Prize in 2005, the Marcel Benoist Prize in 2010, the most prestigious science prize in Switzerland; the Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics 2014 from the European Academy of Sciences, and the King Faisal International Prize in Science. In 2021, he has been elected as External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society.