Shannon Harvey

Shannon Harvey is an Associate Scientist in the Fundamental Physics Directorate at SLAC. She has a broad set of research interests that focus on spin and superconducting qubits, with particular interest in the materials sources of loss in quantum devices, the impacts of radiation on qubits, and microwave single photon detectors for axion detection.

A guiding force in her work is a focus on increasing the throughput of quantum experiments by developing robust processes for materials synthesis and nanofabrication and increasing automation of device design and measurement, making it possible to more rapidly iterate and refine devices, a key element in accelerating progress towards building useful quantum information systems.

Shannon received her PhD in Physics from Harvard University, where she researched semiconductor spin qubits, and her BA in mathematics and physics from Cornell University.