Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Simon Gustavsson

Simon Gustavsson is Co-Founder & CTO of Atlantic Quantum, where he oversees all technological innovation activities while also supporting the company’s government affairs initiatives.

Before joining Atlantic Quantum, Simon founded and served as CEO of Labber, a startup focused on developing advanced control and automation software for quantum computing, which was successfully acquired by Keysight Technologies in 2020.

Simon spun Labber out of MIT’s Engineering Quantum Systems Group (EQuS), where he was a Principal Research Scientist working on all aspects of superconducting quantum computing systems.

Simon holds a PhD in Physics from ETH Zurich and an MSc in Engineering Physics from Chalmers University.

Featured Publications

Gustavsson, S., Yan, F., Catelani, G. et al. Suppressing relaxation in superconducting qubits by quasiparticle pumping. Science 354 (6319), 1573-1577 (2016).
Yan, F., Gustavsson, S., Kamal, A. et al. The flux qubit revisited to enhance coherence and reproducibility. Nature Communications 7, 12964 (2016).
Bylander, J., Gustavsson, S., Yan, F. et al. Noise spectroscopy through dynamical decoupling with a superconducting flux qubit. Nature Physics 7, 565–570 (2011).