Rami Barends
Jülich Research Center, Germany
The physicist is building quantum computers with superconducting qubits. He wants to make quantum computers suitable for everyday use.
Akira Fujimaki
Nagoya University, Japan
He has been working on superconductor devices and circuits at the School of Engineering, Nagoya University, where he is currently a professor.
Lixing You
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
He serves as the dean for the division of superconductivity. His current research is related to superconducting nanowire single-photon detection.
Robert Hadfield
University of Glasgow, Scotland
There he is Professor of Photonics (Electronic & Nanoscale Engineering) and is a leading expert in photon counting with superconducting detectors.