10 Facts About Christopher Monroe

Christopher Roy Monroe was born on October 19,1965 and is an American physicist and engineer in the areas of atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum information science, especially quantum computing.

Christopher Monroe directs one of the leading research and development efforts in ion trap quantum computing.

Christopher Monroe obtained his PhD under Wieman in 1992.

In 2000, Christopher Monroe initiated a research group at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he showed how qubit memories could be linked to single photons for quantum networking.

In 2006, Christopher Monroe became director of the FOCUS Center at the University of Michigan, a NSF Physics Frontier Center in the area of ultrafast optical science.

In 2007, Christopher Monroe became the Bice Zorn Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland and a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute between the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

In 2015, Christopher Monroe co-founded the startup IonQ, Inc with Jungsang Kim, and until 2023 has served as chief scientist.

Christopher Monroe was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

In 2021, Christopher Monroe became the Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor at Duke University, in the Departments of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Christopher Monroe is the founding director of the Duke Quantum Center, an institute that designs, builds, and operates quantum computers.