Nate Gemelke

Nate Gemelke is a co-founder of QuEra and serves as its Chief Technology Strategist, shaping the company's long-term technical direction across hardware, software, and applications. He was QuEra's Chief Technology Officer from the company's early days, where he led the technical development of its neutral-atom quantum computers, built out the scientific and engineering team, and worked closely with early users of the systems. Nate spent more than a decade in academic physics before helping start QuEra. He was an Assistant Professor of Physics at Penn State University, a Research Associate at Harvard University working on quantum information processing with neutral atoms, and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago. His research has spanned ultracold atoms, many-body physics, and the control techniques that underpin neutral-atom quantum computing. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University and a B.S. in applied mathematics, engineering, and physics from the Universi