SemiQon is proud to welcome U.S. Science Envoy and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) professor Prineha Narang and professor Juha Muhonen of Jyväskylä University, Finland to strengthen the SemiQon team as advisors.

Professor Narang joins SemiQon as Science and Strategy Advisor and professor Muhonen as Science and Technology Advisor.

“With emerging technologies, one of the challenges is that you aren’t following anyone else’s lead, but truly carving your own path and drawing the map as you go. In doing this, the advice from visionary scholars and leaders like Dr Narang and Dr Muhonen will be immensely valuable,” says SemiQon CEO Himadri Majumdar.

Both advisors are true pioneers who have through their research work and cross-disciplinary efforts pushed forward the field of quantum technologies.

Dr Narang is currently a professor in Physical Sciences, and in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA, and prior to her current position, she was an Assistant Professor of Computational Materials Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) at Harvard University.

Professor Narang has received numerous prestigious awards and special designations, including the 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in Physics and the Max Planck Sabbatical Award in 2021. She was appointed a U.S. Science Envoy by the State Department in 2023.

Dr Muhonen is a professor at the Department of Physics at the University of Jyväskylä, where his work focuses on slicon-based quantum technologies. Professor Muhonen earned his joint PhD from Aalto University in Helsinki and University of Warwick and has spent years at the University of New South Wales in Australia and at AMOLF Nanophotonics center in the Netherlands.

Professor Muhonen is a former recipient of the highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant funding which was awarded for his work on the development of components needed in quantum computers. He also recently led a successful application for an EIC grant.

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