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THE MANFRA GROUP
The Quantum Semiconductor Systems Group
Microsoft Quantum Purdue
Microsoft Quantum Purdue
Dr. Sergei Gronin
Dr. Sergei Gronin obtained his PhD from the Ioffe Institute of Saint-Petersburg, Russia, developing MBE grown of low threshold lasers based on II-VI materials for green and yellow spectral region. Prior to joining Professor Manfra’s group as part of Microsoft Quantum Purdue in May, 2017 he was a Junior Researcher in the Laboratory of Quantum-size heterostructures (head. Professor Sergey Ivanov) at Ioffe Institute. As part of Microsoft Quantum Purdue, Dr. Gronin develops MBE growth for heterostructures of superconductors and highly spin-orbit coupled III-V semiconductors.
Dr. Raymond Kallaher
Dr. Kallaher received his PhD from Florida State University in 2007, studying the ferromagnetic semiconductor europium sulfide. Prior to joining Professor Manfra’s group as part of Microsoft Quantum Purdue in 2017, Dr. Kallaher was a Senior Scientist at Modern Microsystems working on process development for fabricating high power electronic devices and x-ray optics. He has held postdoctoral research positions at Virginia Tech, studying spin coherent transport in indium antimonide and indium arsenide systems, and at the National Institute of Science and Technology, researching nanostructured thermoelectric materials. As part of Microsoft Quantum Purdue, Dr. Kallaher develops device microfabrication processes for heterostructures of superconductors and highly spin-orbit coupled III-V semiconductors.
Dr. Alex Webster
Dr. Webster received his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from Purdue in December of 2016 with his dissertation entitled “Centrifugally Tensioned Metastable Fluid Detectors for Detection of Alpha, Neutron, and Other Signatures of Special Nuclear Materials in Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Facilities”. His background is in radiation detection, detector development, and special nuclear material security. He joined the group of Prof.