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Christopher Monroe

Co-PI

Duke University

RQS Executive CouncilRQS Senior Investigator
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Contact Information

monroe@umd.edu
Office:

University of Maryland
2158 PSC Building
College Park, MD 20742

Office Phone:
(301) 405-8631
christopher.monroe@duke.edu

Additional Information

CV:
monroe_cv_medium_sept2019.pdf

Bio

Chris Monroe is the Gihuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Physics at Duke University. He is also the director of the Duke Quantum Center. One of the world’s experts in ion trapping for quantum applications, Monroe is working to engineer a scalable, practical quantum computer. He received his doctorate in physics from the University of Colorado in 1992.

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Recent News

  • A man in a collared shirt stands in front of lab equipment and many hanging cables.

    Linke Returns to UMD as the New Director of its National Quantum Laboratory

    January 16, 2026

    Norbert Linke will hold the first IonQ Professorship, advancing quantum computing research and quantum strategy in Maryland and beyond.

  • Duke and Yale

    Quantum Insider Names Duke and Yale Two of the Top Three Universities Worldwide for Quantum Research

    July 23, 2025

    Faculty from both institutions are a part of the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation.

  • a photo of zohreh davoudi wearing a red shirt

    RQS Senior Investigator Davoudi Advocates for Quantum Simulation of Extreme Physics

    October 4, 2023

    Theoretical nuclear and particle physicists wield quantum field theory in their efforts to understand interactions between many particles or the behavior of particles with extremely large energies. This is no easy feat: At least theoretically, quantum field theory plays out in an infinite universe with particles constantly popping in and out of existence. Even the world’s biggest supercomputer would never be able to model it exactly. Fortunately, there are many computational tricks that can make the problem more tractable—like cutting up the infinite universe into a finite grid and taking judicious statistical samples instead of tracking every parameter of every particle—but they can only help so much. Over the past few years, a growing group of scientists has become wise to the potential of quantum computers to approach these calculations in a completely new way.