Hannes Bernien is an assistant professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME). He studies quantum many-body physics and quantum information processing, and seeks to develop new ways of engineering large, complex quantum systems. Prof. Bernien has had research published in numerous journals, including Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Prior to joining PME, Bernien was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Quantum Optics Center. Bernien received his master’s in physics from the University of Hanover, Germany. He earned his doctorate from Technical University Delft, the Netherlands, where he graduated cum laude. His awards include the Kavli PhD Thesis Prize, the Elsevier Diamond and Carbon Materials Young Scholar Prize and the Paul Ehrenfest Award.