Nobel Laureate John Martinis to Deliver Quantum Computing Lecture at UWA

Insider Brief Nobel Laureate Professor John Martinis will deliver a free public lecture at the University of Western Australia (UWA) on the development of quantum computing and the experiments behind superconducting qubits.

Martinis, who shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Clarke and Michel Devoret, will discuss his early research and experiments that advanced superconducting quantum computing.

He will describe his thesis work that led to the Nobel Prize, as well as several other important experiments that have advanced superconducting qubits, the basic unit of information in quantum computing.

In his talk Professor Martinis will show how adopting existing semiconductor technology to build much higher-quality qubits and employing system engineering approaches could pave the way to full-stack scalable technology.

In 2023 he co-founded the startup Qolab to build a superconducting quantum computer.