Dr. Andreas Wallraff is the 2006 recipient of the Nicholas Kurti European Science Prize. He is recognised for a record of sustained achievement covering his postgraduate and postdoctoral research, at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg and more recently at Yale University, in which he has worked at the forefront of quantum device research employing experimental low temperature techniques. In particular, he is recognised for performing several seminal and highly original experiments on quantum mechanical effects in superconducting circuits, combining low-noise electronics, millikelvin temperatures and microwave techniques. This work has a significant impact on the fields of superconducting devices and quantum mechanics of macroscopic solid state systems and has advanced the state of the art for quantum information processing using superconducting circuits.
The Nicholas Kurti Science Prize will be presented to Dr Wallraff at the opening ceremony of the 8th International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity and High Temperature Superconductors (M2S-HTSC-VIII) which will be held in Dresden Germany from July 9 to July 14, 2006.