Big congrats to Thomas who recently defended his PhD on Interfacing superconducting qubits with optical photons!

And a big thank you to Peter Rabl from the WMI & TU Munich serving as the external PhD committee member!

Big congrats to Andrea who recently defended his PhD on High-Impedance Quantum Circuits for Mesoscopic Physics – Geometric Superinductors and Insulating Josephson Chains!

And a big thank you to Andrew Higginbotham from the University of Chicago serving as the external PhD committee member!

Big shout out to our PhD student Alejandro Andres Juanes for winning the best poster award for his poster Continuous variable entanglement meets qubits, which he presented at the LT30 Satellite meeting Low Temperature Quantum Detectors held in Helsinki, Finland, August 3 – 7, 2025

Great results!
Big congratulations!

Georg won one of the few Outstanding PhD Thesis Awards at ISTA. Well deserved!

Big congrats to Riya who recently defended her PhD on Quantum Remote Sensing and Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions in the Microwave Regime!

And a big thank you to Peter Rabl from TU Munich serving as the external PhD committee member!

Big congrats to Georg who recently defended his PhD on microwave-optics interconnects for superconducting circuits!

And a big thank you to Mohammad Mirhosseini from Caltech as the external PhD committee member!

Big congrats to Dr. Hassani who recently defended his PhD on IST and 0-pi qubits!

And a big thank you to Andras Gyenis from UC Bolder for visiting in person.

Big congrats to Rishabh Sahu for winning this years Carl E. Anderson Division of Laser Science Dissertation Award of the American Physical Society:

“For realizing a high-cooperativity electro-optic interconnect demonstrating ultra-low noise conversion and the first observation of microwave-optical entanglement, thus laying the experimental foundations for the new field of cavity quantum electro-optics.”

A great honor and well deserved!

Check out our new article in Science (open access reprint).

Editor’s summary: Several platforms are under development for quantum computation, simulation, and metrology applications, with each platform operating at different operational wavelengths for optimized performance. For practical technologies, the reality will likely be a hybrid of platforms that require quantum entanglement to be generated and shared across platforms with a large energy disparity. Sahu et al. introduce an electro-optical device that allows the generation of quantum entanglement between microwaves (the operational wavelengths of superconducting circuits) with optical photons (the operational wavelength of long-distance quantum communication). Bridging platforms with more than five orders of magnitude difference in energy scales and maintaining the fragile entanglement provides a route to efficiently linking up hybrid quantum systems. — Ian S. Osborne

More info on the ISTA website: “Wiring up Quantum Circuits with Light“

Rishabh successfully defended his PhD thesis!

He is at the center of our team laying the ground for “Cavity quantum electrooptics” exploring quantum-limited interactions between microwaves and light. Impressive work – and impressive hat!