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.
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