Dana Z. Anderson
Glenn L. Murphy Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Professor of Physics & JILA Fellow, University of Colorado
2024 Speaker

Dana Anderson is a fellow of the JILA Institute and a professor in physics and electrical engineering at the 麻豆视频. He is co-founder and the former CEO of ColdQuanta, now Infleqtion, where he is the company鈥檚 chief strategy officer. Anderson played a foundational role in the technology that led to NASA鈥檚 Cold Atom Laboratory and continues to focus on the development of quantum technology for practical deployment in a broad spectrum of applications, including timekeeping, navigation and guidance, and quantum computing. He serves on the steering committee of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED鈥怌). Anderson is a fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society, and is a recipient of the R.W. Wood Prize of Optica and the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics.