Antoine Browaeys, Ph.D.

Browaeys is a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Institut d’Optique. He studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Cachan. He did his Ph.D. under Alain Aspect and his post-doc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States under W.D. Phillips. He is an experimentalist, developing synthetic quantum systems to study many-body problems. He received the CNRS Silver Medal in 2021. He is a co-founder and a scientific adviser of the startup Pasqal.