Google Quantum AI
Trond I. Andersen is a research scientist at Google Quantum AI, where he works on realizing new physical phenomena and beyond-classical applications on NISQ hardware. Trond received his B.S. in Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied optoelectronic phenomena in graphene with Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero. He then received his PhD in Mikhail Lukin’s group at Harvard University, where he performed several studies of excitons in twisted 2D semiconductors, and also used nanoscale defects in diamond to probe electron-phonon dynamics in graphene. In his current work at Google, Trond is particularly focused on hybrid analog-digital quantum simulation, with the goal of using quantum hardware to gain new insights about both non-equilibrium phenomena and ground state properties in quantum magnets.