Michael J. Manfra is currently the Bill and Dee O’Brien Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue University. Manfra is also Scientific Director of Microsoft Quantum Lab Purdue, part of Microsoft’s effort to build a topological quantum computer. He joined the faculty of Purdue University in 2009 after working for 8 years as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. Manfra’s interests include growth, device fabrication, and transport properties in low-dimensional topological systems. His team at Purdue recently reported direct observation of anyonic braiding statistics by operating a novel electronic Fabry-Perot interferometer in the fractional quantum Hall regime. Manfra holds five patents, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
