Susan Clark is currently the PI of the DOE Office of Science ASCR funded program QSCOUT (Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed) which is a small quantum processor based on trapped ions for the broader scientific community to use.
She earned her PhD from Stanford University in 2010 under Yoshi Yamamoto, examining ultrafast, optical techniques for quantum manipulation of neutral donors in GaAs and ZnSe. She then switched fields to trapped-ion quantum systems working for Chris Monroe at University of Maryland as a Joint Quantum Institute Postdoctoral Fellow. There she demonstrated protocols for combining remote and local entanglement for building scalable quantum systems based on trapped ions. In 2013, she joined Sandia National Laboratories as a postdoc and was promoted to technical staff in 2014. Since then, she has worked on a variety of quantum information related projects involving trapped ions and gate defined quantum dots in Silicon.
Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525.
