Nate
Gemelke is a co-founder of QuEra and serves as its Chief Technology Strategist,
shaping the company's long-term technical direction across hardware, software,
and applications. He was QuEra's Chief Technology Officer from the company's
early days, where he led the technical development of its neutral-atom quantum
computers, built out the scientific and engineering team, and worked closely
with early users of the systems.
Nate
spent more than a decade in academic physics before helping start QuEra. He was
an Assistant Professor of Physics at Penn State University, a Research
Associate at Harvard University working on quantum information processing with
neutral atoms, and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago. His
research has spanned ultracold atoms, many-body physics, and the control
techniques that underpin neutral-atom quantum computing.
He
holds a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University and a B.S. in applied
mathematics, engineering, and physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.