Dr. Cramer joins Berkeley from the U.S. Naval Observatory, where she led the Celestial Reference Frame Department, returning to her scientific roots in precision measurement. Prior to that role, she played a major part in shaping the U.S. Department of Energy’s strategy for quantum information science, helping to develop DOE’s QIS research portfolio and contributing to the evolution of the National Quantum Initiative through collaborations across federal science agencies.

Her earlier service at the Office of Management and Budget, the National Science Foundation, and NIST gives her rare insight into how scientific priorities are set, how major research programs are funded, and how large multi-institutional collaborations succeed.

As executive director, Dr. Cramer holds a joint portfolio that spans both NSF CIQC — an NSF-funded, multi-university institute — and Berkeley’s growing campus-wide quantum program. She coordinates research activities, guides strategic planning, strengthens educational programs in quantum information science, and builds partnerships across academia, industry, government, and national laboratories.

Siddiqi’s experimental research group focuses on quantum effects in nanoscale circuits at temperatures near absolute zero. Siddiqi has won a number of awards, including the George E. Valley prize from the American Physical Society, and citations from several branches of the Department of Defense.

Joel Moore joined the physics department faculty as an assistant professor in January 2002. He received his A.B. summa cum laude in physics from Princeton University in 1995 and spent a Fulbright year abroad before graduate studies at MIT and a year at Bell Labs.  He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (2022), a Simons Investigator (2013-2023), an elected fellow of the American Physical Society (2013), and Chern-Simons Professor.  He is also a senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Alp Sipahigil is the Ping & Amy Chao Family Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He has joint appointments as a faculty scientist at the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a supporting appointment at UC Berkeley Physics.   

He leads the Berkeley Quantum Devices Group which focuses on solid-state device research to advance quantum computation, communication and sensing. His group studies a wide range of physical systems including superconducting quantum circuits, color centers, integrated photonics and phononics.    

Prior to joining Berkeley in 2021, he was an Institute for Quantum Information and Matter postdoctoral scholar at Caltech. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 2017 and his B.S. degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University in 2010.