Norbert Linke

Norbert M. Linke is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the Duke Quantum Center (DQC), Duke University, NC and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland. He is working on quantum applications of trapped ions. Born in Munich, Germany, he graduated from the University of Ulm, and received his doctorate at the University of Oxford, UK, working on micro-fabricated ion-traps and microwave-addressing of ions. He spent four years as a post-doc and research scientist in the group of Chris Monroe at the University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Institute where he led a project that turned a physics experiment into a programmable quantum computer. He became an assistant professor at UMD in 2019 and transferred to the DQC in 2022.