Chris Monroe Joins QPICs to Chair Scientific Advisory Board

Arvada, Colo., September  25, 2026 — Dr. Christopher Monroe joins QPICs, Inc to chair Scientific Advisory Board.

Chris Monroe is one of the founding figures of experimental quantum computing, having spent more than three decades turning trapped-ion physics from a laboratory curiosity into the leading platform for building real quantum computers. After studying under Nobel laureate Carl Wieman, he joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology under Nobel laureate David Wineland, where in 1995 he was part of the team that demonstrated the first fundamental quantum logic gate, a landmark result that proved quantum computation with trapped ions was physically achievable.

Over the following years he went on to lead many of the field’s foundational demonstrations, including some of the earliest multi-qubit entanglement experiments and quantum teleportation between separated atoms, as well as a scalable ion-shuttling architecture, the first ion trap integrated onto a semiconductor chip, and early work using arrays of individually controlled atoms as programmable quantum simulators.

Many of these concepts, from entangling gates to modular, shuttling-based architectures, remain core building blocks of how trapped-ion quantum computers are engineered today.