Dr. Jagadeesh Subbaiah Moodera and his team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), discover the sighting of ‘Majorana Fermion’.
This sighting of Majorana Fermion are scalable and could be made in qubits. These qubits could be used to build the most powerful and error free quantum computers.
Married to Dr. Geetha Berera – Senior Lecturer – Department of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT
Currently :
- MIT – Francis Bitter National Laboratory – Leader, ‘Thin Film Magnetism, Superconductivity and Nanospintronics Group
- Visiting Professor – Technological University of Eindhoven – The Netherlands
- Adjunct Professor – Suffolk Universtiy
Awards & Honours :
- Oliver Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics -from American Physical Society (APS) – (2009)
- Fellow – American Physical Society (2000)
- Coorg Person of the Year (2008)
Papers:
- More than a dozen papers published internationally
Education:
- Ph.d – Physics – Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Madras
- M.Sc – Mysore University
- B.Sc – Mysore University