About the Speaker

Andreas Wallraff is Full Professor for Solid-State Physics in the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich. His work focuses on the experimental investigation of quantum effects in superconducting electronic circuits for fundamental quantum optics experiments and for applications in quantum information processing. His group at ETH Zurich researches micro- and nano-electronics as well as hybrid quantum systems combining superconducting electronic circuits with semiconductor quantum dots, making use of fast and sensitive microwave techniques at ultra-low temperatures.

About John Bell

The John Bell Day Lecture is held annually to mark John Bell Day which is on the 4th of November to honour an esteemed Queen’s alum, John Stewart Bell. John Bell was born in Belfast in 1928 and is a globally renowned physicist who is best known for ‘Bell’s Theorem’ which resolved a decades old dispute involving Albert Einstein and showed that Einstein’s views on quantum mechanics were incorrect. Bell’s work has laid the foundations for quantum information technology which continues to shape the world as we know it.