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Fernando Gonzalez Zalba

Fernando Gonzalez Zalba
f.gonzalez@nanogune.eu
Hardware Cuántico
Group Leader
Ikerbasque professor

Since 2024, M. Fernando Gonzalez Zalba is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at CIC nanoGUNE where he leads the Quantum Science and Technology Group. He is also Head of Quantum Hardware Development at Quantum Motion where he heads the Quantum Hardware team, a start-up dedicated to the development of quantum computing hardware based on silicon technology and here he holds a UKRI Future Leader Fellowship. Furthermore, he is Associate Lecturer at the University of Cambridge - where he teaches Low-Dimensional Physics – he is Honorary Research Associate at University College London – for his dedication to graduate training – and Quondam Fellow at Hughes Hall, a University of Cambridge College.

He has more than 15 years of experience in the development of quantum technologies. His research focuses on a variety of topics including single-atom electronics, quantum sensing, quantum-limited amplification, microwave single-electron devices, cryogenic classical electronics, and new computing paradigms such as quantum computing.

He obtained a PhD from the University of Cambridge with a thesis on Single-atom Electronics in 2013 and was Head of Quantum Computing at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, a R&D centre of Hitachi Europe. In 2016, he received the R&D Technology Award from Hitachi's Centre for Social Innovation for the development of silicon-based quantum computing technology. He was awarded the Young Scientist Award by the Spanish Royal Society of Physics in 2017, and in 2019 became a Royal Society Industry Fellow and received Hitachi’s Centre for Exploratory Research award for substantial developments in quantum sensing.

His research has been funded by the European Commission's FP7 and H2020 programmes, Innovate UK, EPSRC, the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability and the Royal Society totalling more than £5.0M. He has published more than 50 peer reviewed articles in journals such as Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Electronics, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Nature Quantum Information, Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters and Nano Letters and has been cited more than 2,500 times. He also holds 5 granted patents and often participates in outreach scientific events for all ages on quantum computing and artificial intelligence.

Background:

  • 2008 MPhys, University of Zaragoza, Spain • 2012 PhD on Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 2013-2018 Senior Research Scientist, Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, UK
  • 2018-2020 Head of Quantum Computing, Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, UK
  • 2020-present, Principal Quantum Engineer, Quantum Motion, UK
  • 2024-present, Ikerbasque Research Professor and Group Leader CIC nanoGUNE, Spain

Links of interest:

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  • QuantumMotion

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