Morten Kjaergaard

Associate Professor | Experimental Quantum Information Physics | Niels Bohr Institute

Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

About

I am an Associate Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen working in the field of experimental quantum information physics & superconducting quantum computing. Prior this, I was postdoctoral researcher at the Research Laboratory for Electronics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, US. I am interested in the interplay between quantum physics and computer science and have worked in both theoretical and experimental aspects of building, calibrating and operating quantum computers. I have extensive experience teaching (at MIT and University of Copenhagen) and I enjoy public outreach of ideas related to quantum physics, theory of computing and algorithms. My full publication list can be found on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oVChRBkAAAAJ&hl=en

Experience

  • Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen (5 yrs 9 mos)
    • Associate Professor
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

      I am a tenured Associate Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute and I'm the principal investigator of the Superconducting Quantum Information & Devices Lab (SQUID Lab). My groups research is focused on the interplay between quantum information physics, superconducting quantum devices and experimental quantum computing.

    • Assistant Professor
      Nov 2020 - Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      As an Assistant Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute I was leading the Superconducting Quantum Information & Devices Lab.

  • Senior Scientific Expert at Kvantify
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Nov 2016 - Nov 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    My work at MIT has focused on developing and implementing calibration, verification and validation techniques for high-fidelity quantum operations using superconducting qubits as well as hardware-efficient approaches to small quantum algorithms.

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
    Oct 2015 - Oct 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

    During this one-year postdoc I worked on low-temperature condensed matter experiments on realizing Majorana zero modes at the interface between two-dimensional semiconducting electron gas and a superconductor, as well as novel applications of hybrid semiconductor/superconductor materials in quantum computing.

  • Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University
    Jan 2009 - Jun 2009 · 6 mos

    Visiting research fellow in the lab of Prof. Charles Marcus, where I developed theoretical and computer simulation models for improved readout in electron spin-based qubits.