Frank K. Wilhelm-Mauch

Frank Wilhelm studied physics at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, where he obtained his Vordiplom (B.S.) in 1993, Diplom (MS) in 1996, and Doctorate in 1999.

His thesis research was in condensed matter theory in the group of G. Schoen, studying superconducting nanodevices.

He started working on quantum computing in 1999, when he joined the experimental physics group of J.E. Mooij in what is now known as the Kavli institute for Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. Still being a theorist, he moved to the Ludwig Maximillian University (LMU) of Munich in 2001, where he obtained the Habilitation and was appointed lecturer in 2004. In 2006, he joined the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada as an Associate Professor of Physics at the Institute for Quantum Computing, with a cross-appointment to Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he was promoted to full professor in 2011. He became a full chair professor at Saarland University in Germany in 2011.

Research Expertise

• Quantum computing with superconducting nanocircuits
• Decoherence theory
• Circuit QED
• Control theory
• Quantum noise
• Mesoscopic physics and nanodevices
• Nonequilibrium quantum statistics

Degrees

• Habilitation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2004
• Doctorate, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany, 1999
• Masters, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany, 1996
• Bachelor, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany, 1993

Major Positions

Title	Location	When
Chair professor	Saarland University in Germany	2011-present
Associate Professor	Department of Physics and IQC, University of Waterloo	2006-2011
Senior researcher and lecturer	LMU Munich	2001-2005
Postdoctoral Fellow	TU Delft, Netherlands	1999-2001