Bio
Gilles Buchs is an experimental physicist with a background in academia and industry in quantum nanoscience, photonics systems, and quantum information science. He earned his master’s degree in experimental condensed matter physics in 2004 from ETH Zurich and his doctorate in the same field in 2008 from the University of Basel in Switzerland. He was a Marie-Curie Intra-European Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology, focusing on quantum nanoelectronics and nanophotonics.
In 2013, he joined CSEM in Switzerland as a senior R&D engineer, where he worked on developing and managing public-private partnership projects related to photonics systems and quantum sensors. In 2018, he joined Silicon Quantum Computing at the University of New South Wales in Australia as a senior researcher to conduct research toward the development of an analog quantum processor based on dopants in silicon. Gilles joined ORNL in 2021 as a senior R&D staff, where he works on establishing and leveraging a quantum edge node to conduct research in quantum simulation, computation and sensing. He was serving as an Acting Group Leader of the Quantum Computing and Sensing group from 2022 to 2023.
Since 2024, Gilles is a Director of the Heterogeneous Quantum Systems LDRD Initiative at ORNL.
Gilles holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).