Jonas N. Becker

Professor Jonas N. Becker is the Jerry Cowen Endowed Chair of Experimental Physics at Michigan State University. His group’s research explores novel defects in diamond for quantum technologies and fundamental physics. He earned his M.Sc. in Chemistry (2013) and Ph.D. in Physics (2017) from Saarland University, Germany, focusing on silicon vacancy centers in diamond. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London, working on photonic interconnects for trapped-ion quantum computers and quantum memories based on rare-earth crystals and atomic vapors.