PD Dr. Frank Deppe

- Alumnus/Alumna: Quantum Systems
Priv.-Doz. Dr. habil. Frank Deppe was a member of the Gross group at WMI as a Master's and Ph.D. student, as well as a Junior Group Leader between 2001 and 2022. Since 2017, he has also been a private lecturer (“Privatdozent”) at the Technical University of Munich.
Master's Thesis: Magnetisierung und thermodynamische Eigenschaften von festem 3Helium (2002)
Ph.D. Thesis: Superconducting Flux Quantum Circuits: Characterization, Quantum Coherence, and Controlled Symmetry Breaking (2009)
Habilitation Thesis: Microwave Quantum Science with Superconducting Circuits (2016)
Frank Deppe worked on superconducting quantum circuits, as well as on quantum communication and sensing with microwaves. During his PhD studies, he performed experiments on superconducting flux quantum circuits at NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Japan. After holding a personalized postdoc position within the Collaborative Research Center 631 on “Solid State Quantum Information Processing”, he became a staff scientist at WMI in 2014. In 2017, he obtained his “Habilitation” (German university teaching licence) and “Privatdozentur” (private lecturereship) at TUM. Frank is principal investigator in the German excellence cluster “Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology” (MCQST), coordinator of the EU Quantum Flagship project “Quantum Microwaves for Communication and Sensing” (QMiCS), and scientific coordinator of the BMBF project “QUAntumRAdarTeam” (QUARATE).
In February 2022, Frank Deppe left WMI to join IQM Quantum Computers as Head of QPU Technology, while still holding a part-time position at WMI/MCQST.