Wolfgang Pfaff
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolWolfgang Pfaff is an experimental physicist and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with 14 years of experience developing solid-state quantum technologies and quantum optics experiments. His work spans scientific software for measurement and data analysis, cryogenic laboratory electronics, and control of quantum phenomena—skills honed at Microsoft Station Q, Yale, and TU Delft where he demonstrated remote entanglement and unconditional quantum teleportation between solid-state memories. He combines hands-on device development for topological and superconducting platforms with a pragmatic focus on robust measurement code and lab automation. Based in Urbana, he brings a rare blend of precision experimental technique and software tinkering that accelerates reproducible quantum experiments.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Physics, MSc, Physics at University of RegensburgPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Delft University of Technology
German, Dutch, English
Github Skills (12)
administration10
pyqt10
physics10
data-analysis9
science9
data-acquisition8
to-do8
python7
data-science5
quantum-computing5
quantum-mechanics5
qutip2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
toolsforexperiments/hardware
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Moved to Labcore! Please visit us there
Contributions:2 reviews, 12 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 2 months
driversqcodesinstrument-control
wpfff/plottr
Feb 2019 - Jan 2026
A flexible plotting and data analysis tool.
Contributions:21 PRs, 227 pushes, 78 branches in 6 years 11 months
flexibledata-analysispythondata-sciencedata-visualization
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