Paul Bernays Lectures 2024

Professor Michel Devoret

Michel Devoret is Professor of Physics at the University of California Santa Barbara. He also holds a position as Chief Scientist at Google Quantum AI.

Devoret's main contributions are in experimental solid state physics, with emphasis on mesoscopic phenomena that provide degrees of  freedom suited for quantum information processing. Devoret was awarded numerous prizes, among them the Europhysics-Agilent Prize (2004) of the European Physical Society, the John Stewart Bell Prize (2013), the Fritz London Memorial Prize (2014), and most recently the Comstock Prize in Physics (2024) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003), the Académie des Sciences (2008) and the U.S. National Academy of Science (2023).