MIKEL SANZ RUIZ
- Knowledge area
- Department
- Physical Chemistry
- Centre
- Faculty of Science and Technology
- Electronic mail
- mikel.sanz@ehu.eus
I am Ramón y Cajal Researcher and Ikerbasque Fellow at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, where I lead the group Quantum Computation and Architectures since 2018, which comprises two senior and one postdoctoral researchers, and seven PhD, three Master and two Bachelor students. The two main research lines that we are developing are quantum computing in NISQ architectures and microwave quantum communication and sensing. We have close experimental collaborations in superconducting circuits and quantum photonics with R. Gross and F. Deppe at the Walther-Meissner Institute (Garching, Germany), Y. Nakamura at the University of Tokyo (Japan), B. Huard at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France), and A. Wallraff at ETH Zürich (Switzerland). We are also exploring a novel research line of in-hardware engineered quantum neural networks employing quantum memristors. We have the first experimental results in superconducting platforms in collaboration with M. Mariantoni at the IQC (Waterloo, Canada), and in quantum photonics with J. Lukens at the ORNL (Tennessee, USA).
I have actively participated in several National, European and International projects. I was PI of the European FP7-ICT project Quantum Propagating Microwaves in Strongly Coupled Environments (PROMISCE, €294,588) and I am currently PI of the Quantum Flagship projects Quantum Microwave Communication and Sensing (QMiCS, €317,000) and An Open Superconducting Quantum Computer (OpenSuperQ, €420,000), and PI of t