Bradley Hauer

Faculty, Assistant Professor
Bradley Hauer
  • Email: bhauer@uwaterloo.ca
  • Office Phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 43199
  • Office: QNC 4116
  • Admin Support: Amber Wang

Bradley Hauer focuses on cavity optomechanical systems and superconducting circuits and their applications in metrology, quantum information and non-classical state preparation. His work straddles theoretical and applied research, from ideation and designing devices through to their fabrication and analysis. 

Prior to joining IQC and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2024, he was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder. Hauer earned his bachelor’s and PhD in physics from the University of Alberta. During his PhD work, he studied low-temperature silicon optomechanics.

Research Expertise

  • Experimental and theoretical physics
  • Cavity optomechanics
  • Superconducting circuits
  • Quantum information
  • Nanomechanics

Degrees

  • PhD, University of Alberta, 2019
  • Bachelor of Science, University of Alberta, 2011

Awards & Honours

  • NSERC Alliance Quantum, 2024
  • Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2022
  • NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2020
  • Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, 2016
  • Dorothy J Killam Memorial Graduate Prize, 2016

Major Positions

Title Location When
Assistant Professor Cross-appointed in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo 2024 – present
Assistant Professor Cross-appointed in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo 2024 – present
Assistant Professor Institute for Quantum Computing and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 2024 – present
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado 2022 – 2024
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado 2020 – 2022