Andrea Morello – The Conversation

Professor, Quantum Nanosystems, UNSW

Andrea Morello is the Scientia Professor of Quantum Engineering at UNSW Sydney (Australia), an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 2004, followed by a postdoc at the University of British Columbia.

His group at UNSW has pioneered the use of donor spins for quantum information processing, demonstrating the first electron and nuclear spin qubits in silicon, record coherence times, and high-fidelity multi-qubit operations. For these contributions he received numerous awards, including the 2017 Landauer and Bennett Award for Quantum Computing. His research interests further extend to quantum chaos, quantum foundations and quantum sensing.

He is a passionate science communicator and a teacher: his YouTube videos gathered over 10M views, and he led the creation of the world’s first bachelor’s degree of Quantum Engineering at UNSW.

Experience

2016–present

Professor, UNSW
2013–2015

Associate professor, UNSW
2007–2012

Senior Lecturer, UNSW

Education

2004

Leiden University, The Netherlands, Ph.D. Physics
1998

Politecnico di Torino, Italy, Master's Engineering

Publications

2013

High-fidelity readout and control of a single nuclear spin qubit in silicon, Nature 496, p. 334
2012

A single-atom electron spin qubit in silicon, Nature 489, p. 541
2010

Single-shot readout of an electron spin in silicon, Nature 467, p. 687

Professional Memberships

Australian Institute of Physics
American Physical Society

Research Areas

Quantum Information, Computation And Communication (020603)

Honours

2011 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research; 2013 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year; 2013 David Syme Research Prize; 2014 NSW Science and Engineering Award; 2017 R. Landauer & C.H. Bennett Award for Quantum Computing; 2019 Walter Boas Medal; 2021 Australian Institute of Physics Award for Community Outreach to Physics