The 2019 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize was awarded to Audrey Bienfait for her ground breaking experiments demonstrating the quantum limit of sensitivity in electron spin resonance and entangling superconducting bits using phonons. Dr Bienfait was in residence in the Case Western Reserve University Department of Physics the week of Feb 17, 2020. During her stay she delivered three seminars and the Physics colloquium and was featured in The Daily: “2019 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize brings top quantum researcher to campus.” 

Dr. Bienfait’s talks are available for viewing. Please enjoy and join us in congratulating Dr. Bienfait for her outstanding accomplishments as a young scientist and very bright future ahead!

2019 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Colloquium: Audrey Bienfait

2019 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Seminar Playlist

Lecture 1: Phonon-mediated quantum state transfer and remote entanglement

Lecture 2: Magnetic resonance with quantum microwaves

Lecture 3: Microwave amplification at the quantum limit

About the MPPL Lectureship Series & Dr. Audrey Bienfait

The Michelson Postdoctoral Prize is an international award presented by the Physics Department at CWRU to an outstanding postdoctoral researcher in any subfield of physics. Dr Bienfait is the 23rd recipient of the award. She has a PhD in Physics from the Universite Paris-Saclay and she did her postdoctoral work at the Institute of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. Dr Bienfait is now a faculty member at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon in France.