Charles Marcus received his Bachelors at Stanford University (1984), his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard (1990) and was an IBM postdoctoral fellow at Harvard (1990-92). He was a member of Physics faculty at Stanford (1992-2000) and Harvard (2000-2011). Since 2012, he serves as the Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. He is the Director of the Center for Quantum Devices.
Marcus’s research focuses on quantum mechanically coherent electronics, including confined spins semiconductors, Josephson qubits, fractional quantum Hall systems, and Majorana systems.