Short presentation

Charles Marcus is Professor at UCPH and Principal Researcher at Microsoft. He serves as Director of the Center for Quantum Devices (QDev), a Center of Excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and Director of Station Q Copenhagen.

Primary fields of research

Research areas include condensed matter physics, quantum coherent electronics and qubit implementations, topological states of matter, and quantum computing.

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Current Research Interests

Experimental condensed matter physics
Physical realizations of quantum information systems in semiconductors and superconductors
Topological materials, Majorana modes, and quantum information
Superconductor-semiconductor hybrid devices
Spin qubits and electron-nuclear interaction in qubits
Novel approaches to magnetic resonance imaging

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, 1990, Harvard University
• A.M. in Physics, 1987, Harvard University, Dissertation title: "Dynamics of Analog Neural Networks"
• B.S. in Physics with Honors and Departmental Distinction, 1984, Stanford University
  

Employment

• 2017-present Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
• 2016-present Principal Researcher, AI&R, Microsoft Corp.
• 2012-2017 Villum Kahn Rasmussen Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
• 2009–2010 Visiting Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
• 2000–2012 Professor, Department of Physics, Harvard University
• 1999–2000 Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Stanford University.
• 1992–1999 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Stanford University

Professional Activities

• Scientific Advisory Board, KTH Center for Quantum Materials, Stockholm, Sweden
• External Advisory Board, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, NY USA
• Director, Center for Quantum Devices (DNRF Center of Excellence), 2012-
• Scientific Director, Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems, 2004-2009
• Site Director, National Nanofabrication Infrastructure Network, 2004-2009
• Scientific Advisory Board, QSIT, Swiss Federal Science Foundation Research Center
• Scientific Advisory Board, Freiburg Institute of Physics, Freiburg, Germany
• Organizer, Simons Research Conferences, 2012, 2014
• External Advisory Board, Georgia Tech MRSEC
• Executive Advisory Board, QIST Grand Challenge, Sandia National Laboratories
• External Board, Physics Frontier Center, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland 2008-2011
• Director, School on Nano-Electronics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 2006
• Organizer, Aspen School on Interactions, Coherence & Control in Mesoscopic Systems, 2006
• Advisory Board, Theory Institute, Argonne National Laboratory
• EU Quantum Information Processing IRC International Advisory Group
• Advisory Board, Massachusetts Nanotechnology Initiative
• Series Editor, Mesoscopic Physics, Oxford University Press
• Advisory Board, Wonderfest, A Festival of Science
• Director, Workshop on Quantum Systems Out of Equilibrium, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 2004
• Director, Workshop on Mesoscopic Physics and Electron Interactions, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 2001
• Director, Extended Workshop on Mesoscopic Physics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 1998
• Organizer, National Academy of Sciences "Frontiers of Science", 1995

Awards and Honors

• Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2018
• Meservey Lecturer, MIT, 2018
• Chapman Lecturer, Rice University, 2018
• Award for Research Excellence in Nanotechnology, University of Pennsylvania, 2014 
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2013
• Foreign member, Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, 2012
• Aalto Lectureship, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 2010
• Poynting Lectureship, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 2010
• Fellow, American Physical Society, 2009
• AAAS Newcomb-Cleveland Prize, 2006
• Ehrenfest Lecturer, Leiden University, 1997
• N.S.F. Presidential Faculty Fellow/PECASE 1997
• A.S.S.U. Teaching Award, Stanford University, 1996
• A.R.O. Young Investigator Award, 1995
• A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1994
• N.S.F. Young Investigator Award, 1994
• O.N.R. Young Investigator Award, 1994
• Terman Fellowship, Stanford University 1994
• IBM Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1990
• AT&T Bell Laboratories Ph.D. Scholarship, 1985
• National finalist, Apker Award for Undergraduate Research in Physics, 1984
• Rebecca L. Carrington Memorial Award, Physics Department, Stanford University, 1984
• Member of Phi Beta Kappa, elected 1984
• Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Scholarship, 1981

Possible conflicts of interest

Charles Marcus has a dual appointment with UCPH and Microsoft.