Matteo Mariantoni was Member of the Gross group at WMI as a Ph.D. student between 2003 and 2009.

Ph.D. Thesis: New Trends in Superconducting Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: Two Amplifiers, Two Resonators, and Two Photons (2009)

In 2009 he left WMI to become a Elings Prize Fellow of the California NanoSystem Institue - CNSI, working in the group of John Martinis. In 2013 he became  Professor of Physics at the University of Waterloo (Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and Department of Physics and Astronomy). In the same year, he was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in recognition of his distinguished performance and unique potential to make substantial contributions to his field. In 2014, he was also awarded the Ontario Early Researcher Award, as well as the Kavli Fellowship.