Cyrus F. Hirjibehedin is a member of Technical Staff in the Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He studies superconducting quantum systems and their applications in quantum information processing. Prior to joining MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Hirjibehedin was a Professor of Physics, Chemistry, and Nanotechnology at University College London (UCL). His research used scanning probe microscopy to understand the electronic and magnetic properties of nanometer-scale quantum structures and explore their potential applications in future paradigms of information processing, data storage, and sensing. Before moving to UCL, Dr. Hirjibehedin was a postdoctoral Research Staff Member at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in the Low-Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Group. Working with Dr. Don Eigler and Dr. Andreas Heinrich, he studied the onset of cooperative magnetic behavior in atomically-precise low-dimensional structures. For his Ph.D. research, Dr. Hirjibehedin worked with Professor Aron Pinczuk at both Columbia University and Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies to explore novel interaction effects in low dimensional electron systems formed in semiconductor quantum structures. Results from Dr. Hirjibehedin’s work have been published in over 40 papers in leading academic journals. He has presented this work in more than 140 invited talks at international conferences and seminars, and has received a number of awards for performing high-impact research, including the Medal for Scanning Probe Microscopy from the Royal Microscopical Society and an Outstanding Innovation Award from IBM. Dr. Hirjibehedin received a B.S. in both Physics and Computer Science from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University.
Cyrus is the recipient of the 2019 RMS Medal for Scanning Probe Microscopy, this will be presented at mmc2019.
Sessions
SPM: Advancing materials science via scanning probes
Tuesday @ 10:00 AM
