Dr. Alexia Auffèves did her Ph.D. in the group of S. Haroche, where she fabricated Schrödinger cat states of light.She was hired at CNRS in 2005 to realize quantum optics experiments with semiconducting quantum dots. She then took a theoretical turn. Dr. Auffèves is expert in quantum thermodynamics, quantum information and quantum foundations, and works in close connection with experimentalists and theorists worldwide.
She directs the MajuLab in Sinagpore and is Co-founder of the Quantum Energy Initiative.
Mark Bashkansky, Ph.D.
Dr. Bashkansky is employed as a civilian scientist in the Naval Research Laboratory for the Department of Defense. He is interested in basic and applied research in the fields of laser physics, quantum optics, nonlinear optics, and optical techniques for the nondestructive evaluation of materials.
Scott Chapman, Ph.D.
Scott Chapman is the son of Trustee C. Stanley Chapman and great-grandson of university namesake C.C. Chapman. An alumnus of McKinsey & Company, he co-founded Project Hosts, a successful computer business and consulting company which provides IT outsourcing.
Scott received his undergraduate degree from Yale in physics and then acquired a doctorate in physics from UC Berkeley. After graduation, he traveled Europe and later led talks at physics conferences around the world. Scott is a member of the Board of Trustees of Chapman University and serves as the chair of the Digital Resources Committee.
Fabrizio Colombo, Ph.D.
Dr. Fabrizio Colombo is Associate Professor of Mathematical Analysis at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Paul Davies, Ph.D.
Dr. Paul Davies is the Director of The Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts of Science at Arizona State
University. The Beyond Center is "devoted to confronting the really big questions of science and
philosophy." Dr. Davies is also Principal Investigator of ASU's Center for Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer
Biology, one of 12 Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers nationwide established by the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute.
He has received many awards, including the 1995 Templeton Prize for his work on the deeper implications of science, the 2001 Kelvin Medal from the UK Institute of Physics, and the 2002 Michael Faraday
Prize from the Royal Society for promoting science to the public.
Dr. Davies has been a member of the Institute for Quantum Studies since 2011.
Brad Dodrill
François Englert, Ph.D.
Dr. Englert shares the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with Peter Higgs, "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider".
Dr. François Englert has been a member of the Institute for Quantum Studies since 2011.
Avshalom Elitzur, Ph.D.
Avshalom Cyrus Elitzur was born in 1957 in Iran, from where his family emigrated to
Israel. He did his Ph.D. in Tel-Aviv University with Yakir Aharonov. Among his works
are the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb-testing experiment (with Lev Vaidman), quantum oblivion
(with Eliahu Cohen), the quantum liar paradox (with Aharonov, Smoli et al.), and the
disappearing and reappearing particle (with Aharonov et al.). His other published
papers deal with diverse issues in life and behavioral sciences, such as the thermodynamics
of living systems, suicide prevention and the mind-body problem. He is one of the
founding members of Iyar, the Israel Institute for Advanced Research in Lod, Israel.
Irfan Siddiqi received his AB (1997) in chemistry & physics from Harvard University.
He then went on to receive a Ph.D. (2002) in applied physics from Yale University,
where he stayed as a postdoctoral researcher until 2005. Irfan joined the physics
department at the University of California, Berkeley in the summer of 2006. In 2006,
Irfan was awarded the George E. Valley, Jr. prize by the American Physical Society
for the development of the Josephson bifurcation amplifier. In 2007, he was awarded
the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the Hellman Family Faculty
Fund, and the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Partnership Faculty Fund.
