Chris Monroe, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, IonQ

Chris Monroe is Chief Scientist at IonQ. Dr. Monroe is a world-renowned pioneer in quantum physics and the original inventor of the ion trap quantum computer. With David Wineland, he demonstrated the first quantum logic gate in 1995 at NIST, which contributed to Wineland’s Nobel Prize in 2012. Later, at the Universities of Michigan and Maryland, Dr. Monroe demonstrated the first ion trap on a semiconductor chip, pioneered qubit networking using photons, and developed ultrafast quantum gates for trapped ion qubits. He is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at Duke University. Dr. Monroe is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee.