News

Merritt is awarded a highly selective NIST post-doctoral fellowship!

The postdoctoral fellowship is a nationwide, highly selective award for “scientists and engineers of unusual promise and ability to perform advanced research related to the NIST mission”. Learn more about the fellowship here. Congratulations, Merritt!

Welcome, Róbert Németh!

We’re excited to have Robért, a Fullbright Visiting Student Researcher, join the group!

Friesen Group at SiQEW 2024!

Merritt Losert and Hudaiba Soomro gave a talk and poster presentation (respectively) at the Silicon Quantum Electronics Workshop in September 2024. They were joined by Brighton and Jared from the Eriksson Group. Photo credits to Jared and Brighton!

Congratulations Owen and Tali!

Owen Eskandari and Tali Oh were awarded 2024 NSF GRFP Honorable Mentions. Congrats!

Congratulations, Ben!


Ben Woods has accepted a faculty position here at UW-Madison and will be starting his assistant professorship in August. We’re super excited!

WARF Innovation Awards 2023 Finalist

Congrats to Ben, Mark, and the rest of the team for being one of the six finalist groups in the WARF Innovation Awards! Find out more on their invention here.