Leo Kouwenhoven University Professor at TU Delft QuTech

As of 1 March 2024, Professor Leo Kouwenhoven will be appointed University Professor at TU Delft QuTech, the quantum research institute founded by TU Delft and TNO. Professor Kouwenhoven has been a full professor at TU Delft since 1999. After working at Microsoft, where he teamed up with TU Delft researchers on the development of quantum computers based on Majorana particles, Leo Kouwenhoven has recently been supervising PhD projects at TU Delft in an independent research capacity. We are pleased to announce that Leo Kouwenhoven will continue his outstanding contribution to science at TU Delft. In recent years, there has been a lot of coverage of the Majorana research at TU Delft, and of Leo Kouwenhoven. This fundamental research was sensational in its kind, as it concerned the development of robust qubits based on Majorana states which have the property of being protected against quantum errors. Between 2020 and 2023, two separate investigations into possible violation(s) of scientific integrity were conducted by TU Delft's Research Integrity Committee (and in one case also by the Dutch Body for Scientific Integrity, LOWI) in relation to two publications in 2017 and 2018 on this research.