The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology
by Sebastian Hassinger · 114 episodes
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Your host, Sebastian Hassinger, interviews brilliant research scientists, software developers, engineers and others actively exploring the possibilities of our new quantum era. We will cover topics in quantum computing, networking and sensing, focusing on hardware, algorithms and general theory. The show aims for accessibility - Sebastian is not a physicist - and we'll try to provide context for the terminology and glimpses at the fascinating history of this new field as it evolves in real time.
Latest episodes
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38 min
Atomic-Precision Silicon Qubits and the Path to Fault Tolerance with Michelle Simmons
Michelle Simmons is the founder and CEO of Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) and a Scientia Professor at UNSW Sydney. She is one of the few people in the field who has simultaneously…
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30 min
Building a Regional Quantum Ecosystem with Corey Stambaugh
Corey Stambaugh is one of the few people in the quantum world who has worked at the bench, inside federal policy, and now as the operational lead of a major public-private ecosyste…
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38 min
Quantum Workforce, Sensing, and the Long Game of Operationalization with Isabella Martinez
Isabella Martinez sits at an unusual intersection in the quantum ecosystem: she's not primarily a hardware researcher or an algorithm theorist, but a practitioner who has to make q…
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41 min
Superconducting Qubits, STAR Architecture, and Diamond-Spin Qubits with Dr. Shintaro Sato
Dr. Shintaro Sato is a Fellow and Head of the Quantum Laboratory at Fujitsu Research, and Deputy Director of the RIKEN RQC-Fujitsu Collaboration Centre. He oversees Fujitsu's entir…
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41 min
Quantum Venture Investing from the Lab to the Market with Marie Lepske
Marie Lepske brings a combination that's genuinely rare in venture: a background in applied mathematics and physics, early experience covering quantum at Runa Capital before most g…
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47 min
Rational Quantum Mechanics and the Qubit Ceiling with Tim Palmer
Tim Palmer is not a quantum computing skeptic from the outside. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a CBE, an IPCC lead author, and the inventor of probabilistic ensemble forecast…
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49 min
Classical Reversible Computing on Quantum Dots with Daniel Loss
Daniel Loss is RDIA Chair Professor of Quantum Computing and Director of the Quantum Center at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia, where this work was d…
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41 min
Quantum-Inspired AI and Tensor Network Compression with Román Orús
Román Orús is one of the rare physicists who built a foundational mathematical tool — tensor networks — and then watched it become the engine of a unicorn. His 2013 introduction to…
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46 min
Quantum Workforce Intelligence from qubitsok.com with Piotr Lewandowski
Piotr Lewandowski is a software engineer based in Poland who, as a side project, has built something that no well-funded research institute has: a continuously updated, ontology-ta…
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36 min
Quantum Risk, Readiness, and the Enterprise Boardroom with Richard Entrup
Richard Entrup is unusual in quantum circles: he's not a physicist, and he doesn't pretend to be. He spent decades as a CIO, CTO, CDO, and CISO at organizations including Verizon,…
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44 min
Silicon Spin Qubits and the IBM–HRL Acquisition with Thaddeus D. Ladd
Thaddeus Ladd has spent seventeen years at HRL as the theoretical anchor of its silicon spin qubit program — co-authoring the 2023 Nature paper that demonstrated universal logic wi…
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44 min
Quantum in the Big Four with Aaron Kemp
Aaron Kemp sits at an unusual intersection. He holds a doctorate in cybersecurity, spent years in DoD classified environments running SCI and SAP facilities, and now leads KPMG's q…
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40 min
Investing in the Quantum Frontier and the Road to Fault Tolerance with Barak Bussel
Barak Bussel is one of the few people operating simultaneously at three levels of the quantum stack: deploying private capital into hardware and software companies through 7i Capit…
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42 min
Building the U.S. Quantum Supply Chain with Kate Timmerman
Kate Timmerman is the CEO of the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE), and she is arguably one of the most consequential ecosystem builders in quantum today. Under her leadership, the CQ…
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44 min
The Open Source Substrate for Quantum with Ben Castanon
Ben Castanon became Unitary Foundation's first CEO in February 2026, after roughly four years with the organization as Chief of Staff and then COO. He came into quantum from an unu…
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49 min
Quantum Cameras and Sub-Diffraction Imaging with Johannes Galatsanos
Johannes Galatsanos occupies an unusual dual perch in the quantum ecosystem. As a co-author of the inaugural MIT Quantum Index Report, he's helped map the entire quantum landscape…
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Episode 100: Live at Barnes & Thornburg — Reflections on the First 100 Episodes
This is the 100th episode of The New Quantum Era, and it arrives at a moment of convergence: the book is out, the Helgoland centennial documentary is in production, regional quantu…
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39 min
Quantum EDA for Ion Trap Design with Daniel Faircloth
Daniel Faircloth, PhD is an unusual figure in the quantum ecosystem: a computational electromagnetics engineer who actually helped build trapped-ion hardware before pivoting to the…
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42 min
Electrons on Superfluid Helium with Nick Farina
EeroQ is unusual in two ways. It's the only company in the world commercializing electrons-on-helium qubits, a modality first proposed by Platzman and Dykman in Science in 1999. An…
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45 min
Quantum Drug Discovery and the Path to Advantage with Sabrina Maniscalco
Why This Episode MattersSabrina Maniscalco is one of the few people in quantum who has lived the full arc: two decades of academic work on open quantum systems and non-Markovian no…