Michael Wimmer is the Qubit Research Division leader at QuTech, Delft University of Technology. He leads the Quantum tinkerer group jointly with Anton Akhmerov. Michael’s research revolves around the field of mesoscopic conductors and superconductors. This includes in particular topological aspects of condensed matter physics, such as topological insulators and superconductors, and Majorana bound states. Numerical simulations play a large role in the work of Michael’s group, which is developing new algorithms that are applicable to performing such simulations.

Previously, Michael was a post-doc in the mesoscopic physics group of Carlo Beenakker in Leiden. He did his PhD with Klaus Richter at the University of Regensburg.