ColdQuanta™ grew out of decades of research by Professor Dana Anderson and his work at JILA. His novel patented technology attracted the company’s founding partners who comprise of recognized and experienced leaders in business as well as in Bose-Einstein technologies. Their goal is for the company to become a world leader in commercial ultracold technology. The founders mix of business and scientific professionals allows it to pursue the strategy of leveraging its intellectual property and partnering with academic institutions, government entities, and investment capital to produce innovative solutions to the issues surrounding the production of ultracold matter on a larger scale than exists today.

Rainer Kunz
President and Chief Executive Officer

Rainer Kunz, President and CEO of ColdQuanta, Inc., is a seasoned business executive with almost 20 years of experience in management, sales, business development, and software development. He has proven expertise in sales management, strategic selling, and selling complex high-tech products into a variety of markets. He was Director of Business Development at Broadcom after the acquisition of AltoCom. At AltoCom he served as the Vice President Sales & Marketing, established sales and marketing for the software modem licensing business, and achieved sales levels, which helped AltoCom become an attractive acquisition target. Within a short period of time AltoCom became profitable and was the market leader in processor independent software modems. Kunz had a long tenure at Apple Computer, Europe, as well as the headquarters in Cupertino, CA, with various positions in sales and account management. He also had account management positions at General Magic and Apollo Computer. Kunz has extended his leadership role to the non-profit sector by serving in various board functions. This includes being the Chairman of the Board at Summit Middle Charter School, recognized as one of the best middle schools in the United States.

Professor Dana Anderson
Chief Technology Officer

Professor Dana Z. Anderson holds appointments in the Departments of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado, and is a Fellow of JILA, a joint institute between the University of Colorado and the National Institute for Standards and Technology. He is also Director of the Optical Science and Engineering Program at the University of Colorado. Since 1993 he has been involved in guiding and manipulating cold and ultracold atoms. He and his collaborators Professor Carl Wieman and Dr. Eric Cornell (2001 Nobel Laureates in Physics) first demonstrated guiding of cold atoms through hollow core optical fibers in the mid-1990's and he and Dr. Cornell performed many of the earliest works guiding cold atoms on an “atom chip”, including the first demonstration of a chip-based atom Michelson interferometer. Professor Anderson's group demonstrated the first ultracold atom chip portable vacuum system in 2004, and has been heavily involved in DoD-funded activities to develop ultracold atom chip systems.

Professor Theodor Hänsch
Scientific Advisor

Professor Theodor W. Hänsch is a Director at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching and Carl Friedrich von Siemens Professor at the Department of Physics of Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. He was born in Heidelberg, Germany, where he received his doctorate in laser physics in 1969. In 1970, he joined Arthur L. Schawlow at Stanford University as a postdoc. Two years later, he accepted a faculty appointment at the Stanford Physics Department, where he worked as a Full Professor from 1975 until he returned to his native Germany in 1986. In 1974, Hänsch and Schawlow made a seminal proposal for laser cooling of atomic gases. Twenty-five years later, Hänsch and his Munich team were the first to realize Bose-Einstein condensation on a microfabricated atom chip. In 2005, Theodor W. Hänsch shared half of the Physics Nobel Prize with John L. Hall for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique.

Professor Jakob Reichel
Scientific Advisor

Jakob Reichel studied physics at the universities of Bonn and Munich (Germany) and received his PhD for work on subrecoil laser cooling at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (France). He then moved back to Germany to work with Ted Hänsch at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, with the goal “to do something new with cold atoms”. Together they developed what is now known as the atom chip. A breakthrough was achieved in 2001 when the group obtained a Bose-Einstein condensate on a microchip. In 2004 Jakob accepted a full professor position at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris, where his group explores the applications of atom chips in quantum information and precision metrology.

Dr. K. Jeramy Hughes
Senior Scientist

As Senior Scientist at ColdQuanta, Dr. Hughes is developing instrumentation and applications which exploit the benefits of cold and ultracold atom technology. His studies in physics began at the University of Colorado in Boulder where he had the opportunity to work with Dr. Eric Cornel on one of the first BEC experiments. He later worked at NIST Boulder where he designed and built a multi-region ion trap for quantum computing and atomic timekeeping. Dr. Hughes received his PhD from the University of Virginia for his work with Professor Cass Sackett in Bose-Einstein condensate interferometry. Specifically he developed a compact method for measuring gravity with atoms. His technique is unique in that it does not require a large drop distance like many other atom interferometric methods of gravimetry.

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