Nima Leclerc is a Research Scientist in Quantum Sensing at MITRE, a federally funded research and development center in the Boston area of the United States. He leads an effort developing wide field magnetometry imagers and magnetic navigation systems based on nitrogen vacancy center quantum sensors with use cases in measuring electrical activity in integrated circuits, failure analysis, and biosensing. He has expertise in silicon-based quantum computing, quantum control, semiconductor physics, quantum sensing, and materials simulations.
Leclerc’s scientific contributions have been showcased at many scientific venues and academic journals including the American Physical Society, Physical Review, American Chemical Society, and Materials Research Society and has been invited to speak at The Economist, NVIDIA GTC, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Apart from scientific activities, he has also conducted policy research on the national security impacts of quantum computing as a Graduate Associate at the Perry World House, a think tank at the University of Pennsylvania where he has published policy pieces in media outlets including Just Security. Prior to Penn, he has conducted research in device physics at PsiQuantum, Kepler Computing, Caltech, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Cornell.
Prior to MITRE, Leclerc was a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania developing new control techniques for silicon-based quantum computers, where he also founded the Penn Quantum.
Nima Leclerc
