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12000090
Person Info
First Name
Christopher
Middle Name
R.
Last Name
Monroe
Organization Role / Title
Current Title
College Park Professor
QuICS Title
College Park Professor
RQS Title
Co-PI
Organization Roles
QuICS Organization Roles
Contact Information
Email
monroe@umd.edu
Phone
(301) 405-8631
Office Address

University of Maryland
2158 PSC Building
College Park, MD 20742

Email
christopher.monroe@duke.edu
QuICS Contact Info
Email
monroe@umd.edu
Phone
(301) 405-8631
Office Address

2158 Physical Sciences Complex

RQS Affiliation
About
QuICS Bio

Christopher Monroe is a Distinguished University Professor and the Bice Zorn Professor of Physics. He is also a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute. Monroe leads a research group focused on the use of individual atoms and photons for fundamental studies of quantum physics and applications in quantum information science. A long-term goal of the research is the realization of large-scale quantum information networks that could store and process information in a way that could eclipse the performance of conventional computers. Monroe received his doctorate in physics from the University of Colorado in 1992.

RQS Bio

Chris Monroe is the Gihuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Physics at Duke University. He is also the director of the Duke Quantum Center. One of the world’s experts in ion trapping for quantum applications, Monroe is working to engineer a scalable, practical quantum computer. He received his doctorate in physics from the University of Colorado in 1992.

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