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 (20)
pyqt10
physics10
matplotlib9
visualization9
data-analysis9
science9
data-acquisition9
data-visualization8
python8
administration8
data-science8
modular7
to-do7
data-processing7
quantum-computing6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
toolsforexperiments/instrumentserver
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
qcodes instrument sharing and administration
Contributions:27 reviews, 101 commits, 46 PRs in 2 years 9 months
administrationsharingqcodes
toolsforexperiments/hardware
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
drivers and other tools that are needed for instrument control (and are not yet included in qcodes)
Contributions:2 reviews, 12 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 2 months
driversqcodesinstrument-control
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