Daniel Loss is a professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is a pioneer and world leader of spin qubits and quantum computing.
Daniel Loss received his diploma (1983) and Ph.D. (1985) in theoretical physics at the University of Zürich. From 1989-1991 he worked as a postdoctorate student with Nobel Laureate A. J. Leggett in Urbana, and from 1991-1993 at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY.
In 1993, he joined the faculty of SFU in Vancouver, and then returned to Switzerland in 1996 to become Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Basel, where he founded the Basel Center for Quantum Computing and Quantum Coherence (QC2) in 2005.
Daniel Loss' research interests include spin physics, spin qubits, quantum dots, semiconductors, quantum coherence, topological effects in semiconducting and magnetic nanostructures, and quantum computing. His publication record has over 62,000 citations with an h-index of 113. In 2000, he became an APS Fellow, in 2013 a member of the European Academy of Sciences, in 2014 a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and in 2021 an external scientific member of the Max Planck Society. In 2005, he received the Humboldt Research Prize, in 2010 the Marcel Benoist Prize (highest award by the Swiss government), in 2014 the Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics from the European Academy of Sciences, and in 2017 the King Faisal International Prize in Science.
He is co-director of the Swiss national center on spin-based quantum computing in semiconductors, a field he pioneered in a series of publications starting in 1998 with his seminal work on spin qubits in quantum dots (with D. DiVincenzo). Their visionary paper led to an entirely new field and is one of the highest cited research papers in quantum computing.
