Kristiaan De Greve

Kristiaan De Greve is Fellow and Program Director of Quantum Computing at imec, as well as a professor of electrical engineering at KU Leuven. He joined imec near the end of 2019 from Harvard University, where he was a Fellow in the physics department and retains a visiting position.

Kristiaan is an electrical engineering graduate of KU Leuven, and obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2012 as a Stanford Graduate Fellow, with award-winning Ph.D. research under Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto on novel types of spin qubits, ultrafast means to manipulate such qubits, and pioneering experiments into the limits of light-matter qubit entanglement.

At Harvard, he worked with Misha Lukin and Amir Yacoby to push the limits of magnetic quantum sensing as well as develop the world’s smallest MRI system, and with Misha Lukin, Hongkun Park, and Philip Kim to develop two-dimensional semiconductors into a model platform for textbook quantum optics experiments in reduced dimensions.

Besides his scientific interests, he holds additional physics, economics, and business degrees from Stanford and Harvard University.