Matthew Rakher

Biography

Matthew T. Rakher is a senior scientist at HRL Laboratories where he investigates spin qubits in silicon among other projects in optics and atomic physics. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2008 where he studied quantum optics in semiconductors. Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland and a Marie Curie Fellow of the European Union at the University of Basel in Switzerland. His research interests include experimental quantum optics and quantum information science with nanofabricated semiconductor devices and atomic systems.