Laurent Stephenson
Chief Scientific Officer at Quantum Fabrix
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurent Stephenson is a physics-driven engineering leader and founder with a decade of experience translating cutting-edge quantum experiments into scalable hardware. As Chief Scientific Officer at QFX and co-founder of Quantum Fabrix, he focuses on the practical engineering challenges of moving one-off laboratory demonstrations into mass-producible quantum systems. His DPhil from Oxford yielded a record-setting system for remote entanglement generation, and his work at NIST advanced laser-free quantum gates and randomized benchmarking—bridging deep experimental expertise with rigorous validation. Comfortable leading both research and productization, he combines hands-on system design with startup execution, often tackling the interface between cryogenics, control electronics, and quantum networking. Based in Oxford, he pairs academic pedigree with industry pragmatism, uniquely positioned to de-risk and scale quantum hardware.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of Oxford
French
Github Skills (21)
physics9
science9
quantum-computing9
n-dimensional8
python8
qt8
rust7
mirai-bot6
trap5
compiler5
routines5
cpython4
controller4
bootstrapping4
starlark3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
OxfordIonTrapGroup/mjolnir
Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
A minimal GUI for Thorlabs CMOS cameras
Contributions:182 commits, 2 branches, 2 tags in 1 year 6 months
thorlabscamerasminimal-guigui
ljstephenson/wand
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 release, 169 commits, 79 pushes in 10 months
python
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