Dominik Zumbühl

Dominik received his PhD at Harvard University in 2004 on quantum coherence and spin in semiconductor quantum dots after receiving a physics diploma from ETH Zürich in 1998 and a MSc in 2000 from Stanford University. After a 2-year postdoc at MIT, Dominik started his own group in 2006 at the University of Basel where he has been working since. In 2008, he received a starting grant in the first ERC call. He was promoted to associate professor in 2012 and to full professor in 2023. He served as Department Chair from 2015-2019 and since 2021, he is the director of the NCCR SPIN, the Swiss National Program on Quantum Computing with Si and Ge spins. In 2023, Dominik was elected fellow of the APS.