QuSpin Alumni-QuSpin
QuSpin Alumni
Professors
Dr. Simon Phillip Coiil. Associate professor II 2018-2020
Next position: Postdoc at the Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Norway
Contact: s.p.cooil@fys.uio.no
Justin Wells
Next position: Professor - Solid-state Physics and Quantum Technology, University of Oslo, Norway
Contact: j.w.wells@fys.uio.no
Postdocs
Dr. Pavlo Sukhachov. PostDoc 2024-2025
Next position: George H.Vineyard Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, USA.
Contact: pavlo.sukhachov@missouri.edu
Dr. Henning Hugdal. PostDoc 2022-2024
Next position: Consultant in Trondheim Consulting AS, Trondheim, Norway.
Contact: TBA
Dr. Jabir Ali Ouassou. PostDoc 2021-2023
Next position: Associate Professor, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Haugesund, Norway.
Contact: jabir.ali.ouassou@hvl.no
Dr. Jinbang Hu. PostDoc 2020-2023
Next position: Postdoc at Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan Province. China.
Contact: hujinbang1@gmail.com
Dr. Chi Sun. PostDoc 2022- 2024
Next position: Postdoc at Interdisciplinary Center of Nanoscience of Marseille, France.
Contact: e0021580@u.nus.edu
Dr. Marion Barbeau. PostDoc 2019-2022
Next position: Researcher in Photonics for Health, Imec, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Contact: mmsbarbeau@gmail.com
Dr. Vasil Saroka. PostDoc 2018-2021
Next position: Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy.
Dr. Mariia Stepanova. PostDoc 2019-2021
Next position: Materials Engineer and Data Analyst, Norsk Titanum AS, Hønefoss, Norway.
Contact: mariia.stepanova.mail@gmail.com
Dr. Junhui Zheng. PostDoc 2020
Next position: Associated Professor at the Institute of Modern Physics, Northwest University, Xi’an, China
Contact: jhzheng24@gmail.com
Dr. Rui Wu. PostDoc 2020
Next position: Associate professor in colleague of physics at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).
Contact: wuruixy@gmail.com
Dr. Roberto Troncoso. PostDoc 2020
Next position: Associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering of University Adolfo Ibánez, Santiago, Chile.
Contact: r.troncoso.c@gmail.com
Dr. Rajesh Kumar Chellappan. PostDoc 2019
Next position: DNV, Norway.
Dr. Alex Schenk. PostDoc 2019
Next position: La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Contact: a.schenk@latrobe.edu.au
Dr. Maximillian Kessel. PostDoc 2019
Next position: Scientist at Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Solid State Physics in Freiburg, Germany.
Contact: maximilian.kessel@gmail.com
Researchers
Dr. Akashdeep Kamra. Researcher 2021
Next position: Professor at the RPTU Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Contact: akashdeep.kamra@rptu.de
Dr. Niklas Rohling. Researcher 2019
Next position: PostDoc at Institute of Quantum Inspired and Quantum Optimization, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany.
Contact: niklas.rohling@tuhh.de
PhD
Dr. Verena Johanna Brehm. PhD 2025
Next position: Postdoc at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Contact: verena.brehm@uni-konstanz.de
Dr. Anna Cecilie Åsland. PhD 2024
Next position: Graduate Drilling and Wells Engineer, AkerBP, Stavanger, Norway.
Contact: annacecilieasland@gmail.com
Dr. Bjørnulf Brekke. PhD 2024
Next position: Engineer at the Det Norske Veritas (DNV), Oslo, Norway.
Contact: bjornulf.brekke@gmail.com
Dr. Kristian Mæland. PhD 2024
Next position: Postdoc at University of Würzburg, Germany.
Contact: kristian.maeland@uni-wuerzburg.de
Dr. Tancredi Salamone. PhD 2023
Next position: Postdoc at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commision (CEA), Grenoble, France.
Contact: tancredi.salamone93@gmail.com
Dr. Lina Johnsen Kamra. PhD 2023
Next position: Postdoctoral researcher at MIT, USA.
Postdoc at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (from March, 2025)
Contact: ljkamra@mit.edu
Dr. Eirik Holm Fyhn. PhD 2023
Next position: Reseracher at SINTEF Energy, Department of Gas Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Contact: eifyhn@gmail.com
Dr. Jonas Lidal. PhD 2023
Next position: Researcher at Norwegian National Security Authority (NSM), Oslo, Norway.
Contact: jonas@lid.al
Dr. Håvard Homleid Haugen. PhD 2023
Next position: Researcher at Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway.
Contact info: havardhh93@gmail.com
Dr. Jonas Blomberg Ghini. PhD 2022
Next position: Power engineering consultant at Multiconsult, Trondheim, Norway.
Contact: jonas.blomberg.ghini@gmail.com
Dr. Håkon Ivarssønn Røst. PhD 2022
Next position: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Norway.
Contact: hakon.rost@uib.no
Dr. Jørgen Holme Qvist. PhD 2022
Next position: Research Scientist at Voca AS, Kristiansand, Norway.
Contact: jorgen@voca.no
Dr. Eirik Erlandsen. PhD 2022
Next position: Data Analyst at the Norwegian Bank (DnB), Oslo, Norway.
Contact: eirik.erlandsen@gmail.com
Dr. Atousa Ghanbari Birgani. PhD 2022
Next position: Data Engineer at Kermit Tech AS, Asker, Norway.
Contact: at.ghanb@gmail.com
Dr. Markus Altthaler. PhD 2022
Next position: Postdoc at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute at UBC Vancouver, Canada.
Contact: markus.altthaler@ubc.ca
Dr. Martin Fonnum Jakobsen. PhD 2021
Next position: Researcher at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Oslo, Norway.
Dr. Even Thingstad. PhD 2021
Next position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Universität Basel, Switzerland.
Contact: even.thingstad@hotmail.com
Dr. Fredrik Nicolai Krohg. PhD 2021
Next position: Security Analyst at Orange Cyberdefense, Norway.
Contact info: nicolai.krohg@gmail.com
Dr. Erik Nikolai Lysne. PhD 2021
Next position: Fullstack Developer at Fink, Oslo, Norway.
Contact: contact@eriklysne.com
Dr. Haakon Krogstad. PhD 2021
Next position: Consultant at McKinsey, Oslo, Norway.
Contact: haakon.simensen@gmail.com
Dr. Sverre Aamodt Gulbrandsen. PhD 2020
Next position: System developer, Q-free AS, Trondheim, Norway.
Contact: sverreag@q-free.com
Dr. Arnau Sala. PhD 2020
Next position: PostDoc at Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Leuven, Belgium.
Contact: arnau.sala.c@gmail.com
Dr. Morten Amundsen. PhD 2020
Next position: Postdoc at QuSpin, NTNU.
Contact: morten.amundsen88@gmail.com
Dr. Øyvind Johansen. PhD 2019
Next position: IT consultant at Prodyna, Munich, Germany.
Dr. Eirik Løhaugen Fjærbu. PhD 2019
Next position: Data Scientist at Deepinsight AS, Oslo, Norway.
Contact: eirik.fjaerbu@gmail.com
Dr. Vetle Kjære Risinggård. PhD 2019
Next position: Researcher at Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE), Kr.sand, Norway.
Contact: veri@norceresearch.no
Dr. Camilla Espedal. PhD 2013-2017
Next position: Research Scientist at SINTEF Energy Research, Trondheim, Norway.
Contact: camilla.espedal@sintef.no