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Charles Marcus raised in Sonoma, California, earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University (1980-1984) and received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard in 1990. He was an IBM postdoctoral fellow at Harvard from 1990 to 1992 and then served on the Physics faculty at Stanford (1992-2000) and Harvard (2000-2011). During his tenure at Harvard, he directed the Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems from 2006 to 2011. In 2012, he joined the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen as the Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor, tasked with leading the Center for Quantum Devices. From 2016 to 2021, he was the Scientific Director of the Microsoft Quantum Lab in Copenhagen. In 2023, he joined the University of Washington as the Boeing Johnson Endowed Chair in Materials Science and Engineering and as a Professor of Physics. Marcus is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he is a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters. His accolades include the Industry Prize from the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences in 1999 and the H.C. Ørsted Gold Medal in 2020.
University of Washington • Seattle, WA, USA
Boeing Johnson Endowed Chair in Materials Science and Engineering; Professor of Physics.
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen • Copenhagen, Denmark
Led the Center for Quantum Devices.
Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems • Cambridge, MA, USA
Directed the center focusing on nanoscale systems.
Department of Physics, Harvard University • Cambridge, MA, USA
Served as a faculty member.
Department of Physics, Stanford University • Stanford, CA, USA
Served as a faculty member.
Department of Physics, Stanford University • Stanford, CA, USA
Served as a faculty member.
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