Team

The PhononNext Center at Berkeley Lab brings together experts in atom-to-devices modeling, synthesis and nanofabrication, superconducting detectors, and quantum devices. Our team will combine their expertise to develop multilayers for ultrahigh frequency phononics, and use these multilayers to realize next-generation phonon-engineered quantum sensors, transducers, and qubits.

Please see current openings here. 

Principal Investigators:

Alp Sipahigil

PhononNext Center Director

Faculty Scientist, Materials Sciences Division

Assistant Professor of EECS & Physics, UC Berkeley

Quantum Devices Group

Aritoki Suzuki

Quantum Sensor Lead

Staff Scientist, Physics Division

Cosmology Instrumentation Group

Eric Gullikson

Multilayer Lead

Staff Scientist

Center for X-Ray Optics

Sinead Griffin

Modelling Lead

Staff Scientist, Molecular Foundry

Griffin Group

Adam Schwartzberg

Shaul Aloni

Imaging Lead

Staff Scientist, Molecular Foundry


Zakaria Al Balushi

Faculty Scientist, Materials Sciences Division

Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley

Al Balushi Research Group

Maurice Garcia-Sciveres

Senior Scientist, Physics Division


Francois Léonard  

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, 

Sandia National Laboratory


Zhi (Jackie) Yao

Research Scientist, 

Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division, Berkeley Lab