Bio
Gilles Buchs is an experimental physicist experienced in nanoscience, photonics systems, and quantum technologies. He earned his master’s degree in experimental physics in 2004 from ETH Zurich and his doctorate in the same field in 2008 from the University of Basel in Switzerland. He was a Marie-Curie Intra-European Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology, focusing on quantum nanoelectronics and nanophotonics.
In 2013, he joined CSEM in Switzerland as a senior R&D engineer, where he worked on developing and managing public-private partnership projects related to photonics systems and quantum sensors. In 2018, he joined Silicon Quantum Computing at the University of New South Wales in Australia as a senior researcher, where he conducted research toward the development of an analog quantum processor. He joined ORNL in 2021 as senior R&D staff, where he works on establishing and leveraging a quantum edge node to conduct research in quantum simulation and computation.
He was serving as an acting group leader of the Quantum Computing and Sensing group from 2022 to 2023 and since 2024, he is co-leading the Heterogeneous Quantum Systems initiative at ORNL.
Gilles holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).