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Welcome to the 79th episode of “Decode Quantum”. We continue our “international episodes”, this times with the cofounders of the US startup EeroQ, Nick Farina and Johannes Pollanen, which aims to create qubits with electron spins, electrons being shielded from controlling electronic circuits by a layer of superfluid helium. This is the only company doing this.
Nick Farina is the CEO and co-founder of EeroQ in 2017. Beforehand, he worked as an business angel investor, and an entrepreneur, launching multiple tech startups (GiftedHire for online job search, Voltage Digital a digital agency, JetZet providing itinerary management tools to business travelers). He’s the one bringing business acumen to the company. He is also a Quantum Computing Governance Member at the World Economic Forum since 2021. In 2000-2003, he was a caddie at a golf club (Biltmore Country Club) where he spent summers watching people cheat at golf and lament their losses in tech stocks.
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Bienvenue dans ce 65e épisode de Quantum, le podcast de l’actualité quantique. Nous avions initialement prévu de faire relâche en fin d’année et de reprendre le volant début février mais l’actualité nous a rattrapés. L’annonce récente de Google avec sa puce Willow a défrayé la chronique et surtout m’a bien titillé. Il se trouve que nous avions eu l’idée de lancer ce podcast en octobre 2019 à l’occasion de l’annonce de la suprématie quantique de Google (+ un post). L’histoire se répétant, il fallait bien assurer. Qui plus est, des chercheurs chinois ont surenchéri face à Google et c’est tout récent. Donc, cela mérite un approfondissement.
J’ai aussi publié un article détaillé sur le sujet « Inside Google Willow ».
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Welcome to the 78th episode of Decode Quantum, where we continue to travel around the world. We are now in the UK with Sebastian Weidt, the founder and CEO of Universal Quantum, a startup creating scalable trapped-ions quantum computers.
Sebastian Weidt is the CEO and co-founder of Universal Quantum since 2019, when the company was created. He is also a professor of quantum computing and entrepreneurship at the University of Sussex, which is in Brighton, south of London, near the Channel. He was a lecturer on quantum technology at this university. He was a postdoc research fellow at the same university between 2013 and 2015, and since 2015, a senior scientist in the trapped-ion group led by Winfried Hensinger.
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