University of Jyväskylä

Prof. Juha Muhonen

Professor Juha Muhonen leads the Hybrid Quantum Technologies in SIlicon -group at the University of Jyväskylä. The group's research is focused on studying the interaction between spins, photons and phonons in silicon, with the motivation to both in enable quantum devices using silicon and to study fundamental quantum phenomena, especially possible size and time limits of quantum coherence.

He completed his doctoral degree at Aalto University in 2012, under the supervision of Jukka Pekola. After that he spent three years in Sydney, Australia at the University of New South Wales in the group of Andrea Morello studying donor spin quantum computing in silicon. He then returned to Europe in 2018 and got the Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship to work at the NWO research institute AMOLF in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the group of Ewold Verhagen, studying silicon optomechanics. He started as an Associate Professor at Jyväskylä in 2018 and was promoted full professor in 2023. He received the Academy of Finland research fellowship in 2019 and the ERC Starting Grant in 2019, and now coordinates the EIC Pathfinder Open project Equspace. His group is part of the Finnish Quantum Flagship, and the Finnish doctoral education pilot in quantum technologies (QDoc) and photonics (IDeep).