QUANTUM INTERCONNECTS WORKPACKAGE LEADER
SILICON QUANTUM HARDWARE PROGRAM MANAGER
Scientia Professor of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Sydney
BSc EE, Politecnico di Torino, (IT);
PhD, Leiden (NL)
Professor Morello’s background is in condensed-matter physics and electrical engineering, with a long-standing interest in the quantum dynamics of spins in nanostructures. Andrea started his research career at the Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory in 1998, investigating the magnetic phase diagram of high-Tc superconductors, then obtained a PhD from the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory in Leiden in 2004, where he did pioneering work on the quantum dynamics of the of molecular nanomagnets at low temperatures. After two years at the University of British Columbia, Andrea joined UNSW Sydney in 2006.
Andrea’s group was the first in the world to achieve single-shot readout of an electron spin in silicon, and the coherent control of both the electron and the nuclear spin of a single donor, all published in Nature. His single-atom qubits hold the records of coherence time and violation of Bell’s inequality in the solid state. Andrea also develops ideas and theories to demonstrate multi-qubit logic gates and scalable quantum computer architectures, and to shed light on foundational aspects of Quantum Mechanics.
RECOGNITION
2021 AIP NSW award for Community Outreach to Physics
2019 Walter Boas Medal for Excellence in Research
2017: Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW; Pollock Memorial Lectureship winner
2016: Fellow of the American Physical Society (FAPS); inaugural recipient
of the Rolf Landauer and Charles H Bennett Award in Quantum Computing
2014: NSW Science and Engineering Award for Emerging Research
2013: Malcolm Macintosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year (Prime Minister’s Prizes)
2011: Eureka Prize for Scientific Research