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Charles Marcus raised in Sonoma, California, completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University from 1980 to 1984, and received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 1990. He was an IBM postdoctoral fellow at Harvard from 1990 to 1992 and subsequently served on the Physics faculty at Stanford from 1992 to 2000 and at Harvard from 2000 to 2011, where he directed the Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems from 2006 to 2011. In 2012, Marcus joined the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, as the Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices, supported by the Danish National Research Foundation. He was also the Scientific Director of the Microsoft Quantum Lab in Copenhagen from 2016 to 2021. In 2023, Marcus joined the University of Washington as the Boeing Johnson Endowed Chair in Materials Science Engineering and as a Professor of Physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Danish Royal Academy of Science and Letters. He has received several prestigious awards, including the H.C. Ørsted Gold Medal in Physics in 2020 and the Industry Prize from the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences in 2019.
University of Washington • Seattle, WA
Joined as the Boeing Johnson Endowed Chair in Materials Science Engineering.
Center for Quantum Devices, Niels Bohr Institute • Copenhagen, Denmark
Directed the research center dedicated to quantum devices.
Department of Physics, Harvard University • Cambridge, MA
Served on the faculty and directed the Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems.
Department of Physics, Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Held the position of Associate Professor.
Department of Physics, Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Started an academic career in Physics as an Assistant Professor.
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