Nathalie Pulmones de Leon
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| Nathalie Pulmones de Leon | |
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| Born | b. 1982 Makati, Philippines |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Stanford University Harvard University |
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Nathalie de Leon is a Filipino-American chemist, physicist, and Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. Her research focuses on building quantum technologies with solid state defects and the identification of novel materials systems for superconducting qubits.[1] She was awarded the 2023 American Physical Society Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing.
Early life and education[edit]
Nathalie de Leon was born in Makati, Philippines, in 1982 and raised in California.[2][3] Her parents were also born in the Philippines. Her maternal grandfather was a commercial seamen who was stationed in San Francisco during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was subsequently offered U.S. citizenship contingent on joining the United States Coast Guard. de Leon spent part of her childhood in the Philippines but completed high school in the United States.[3] de Leon was an undergraduate student at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. She completed her undergraduate research in the laboratory of Richard Zare, where she worked on laser spectroscopy. She performed laser-based mass spectrometry on meteoritic samples to explore chemical reactions in space.[1] de Leon moved to Harvard University for her doctoral research in chemical physics, where she joined the laboratory of Hongkun Park. Her research looked to achieve nanoscale confinement of electrons and photons.[4] She developed a nanoscale plasmon resonator capable of tailoring specific light-matter interactions, and demonstrated it convert a broadband emitter to a narrow-band single-photon source.[5] de Leon remained at Harvard University as a postdoctoral researcher, working with Mikhail Lukin.
Research and career[edit]
de Leon joined the Princeton University faculty in 2016. Here she was appointed materials science lead for the Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA), a DOE National Quantum Information Science Center.[6] She is interested in the development of new materials for quantum technologies (e.g. nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond and other color centers in wide bandgap materials) that can be integrated into devices. Color centers typically demonstrate long spin-coherence lifetimes (i.e. the time over which electron spin states can be preserved) or long optical coherence times (i.e. the time over which photon spins can be preserved), but rarely both. de Leon has developed a stabilised color center: a neutral charge state of the silicon-vacancy.[7][8]
de Leon worked with chemists to create a new "discovery pipeline" for types of chemistry that work at the diamond surface, including adamantanes.[9][10]
Awards[edit]
- 2016 Air Force Office for Scientific Research Young Investigator Award[11]
- 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship[12]
- 2018 National Science Foundation CAREER Award[13]
- 2018 Department of Energy Early Career Award[14]
- 2022 Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing[15]
Select publications[edit]
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Personal life[edit]
de Leon is married, and met her husband while she was completing her postdoc appointment at Harvard and he was finishing his PhD.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Welcomes Nathalie de Leon (Princeton University) | QFARM". qfarm.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
- ↑ de Leon, Nathalie P.; Lukin, Mikhail D.; Park, Hongkun (2012). "Quantum Plasmonic Circuits". IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 18 (6): 1781–1791. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.453.8971. doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2012.2197179. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Physics, American Institute of (2022-03-15). "Nathalie de Leon". www.aip.org. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
- ↑ de Leon, Nathalie P. Engineering confined Electrons and Photons at the Nanoscale, Harvard University, Ann Arbor, 2011. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/engineering-confined-electrons-photons-at/docview/877967609/se-2.
- ↑ de Leon, Nathalie P.; Shields, Brendan J.; Yu, Chun L.; Englund, Dirk E.; Akimov, Alexey V.; Lukin, Mikhail D.; Park, Hongkun (2012-05-31). "Tailoring Light-Matter Interaction with a Nanoscale Plasmon Resonator". Physical Review Letters. 108 (22): 226803. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.226803.
- ↑ "Princeton Plays Major Role in New $115M Quantum Science Center". New Jersey Business Magazine. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
- ↑ "Nathalie de Leon | Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN)". isen.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
- ↑ "Nathalie de Leon". Electrical and Computer Engineering. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
- ↑ "How a chemist and a physicist solved a 50-year-old puzzle — with help from the Princeton Catalysis Initiative". Princeton University. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
- ↑ "Nathalie de Leon: Diamond defects for quantum communication | Celebrate Princeton Innovation". 2019-06-16. Archived from the original on 2019-06-16. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
- ↑ "Nathalie De Leon receives U.S. Air Force Young Investigator award". Office of the Dean for Research. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
- ↑ "de Leon named as 2017 Sloan Research Fellow". Electrical and Computer Engineering. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
- ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1752047 - CAREER: Novel Diamond Surface Functionalization and Nanoscale Surface Spectroscopy for Quantum Applications". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
- ↑ "FY 2018 DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program Award Abstracts (06-27-2018)" (PDF). 2018-07-06.
- ↑ "Solid-state expert Nathalie de Leon has won the APS quantum computing award". Electrical and Computer Engineering. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
External links[edit]
- Oral history interview transcript with Nathalie de Leon on 16 April 2021, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
- Website for the de Leon Group
- Google Scholar profile for Nathalie de Leon
- Video: Nathalie de Leon, "Engineering Coherent Defects in Diamond" | KNI Distinguished Seminar
- Video: Virtual AMO Seminar: Nathalie de Leon (Princeton)
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