John M. Martinis (born 1958) is an American physicist and a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lab announced that it had hired Martinis and his team in a multimillion dollar deal to build a quantum computer using superconducting qubits.
[6] While at NIST he developed a technique of X-ray detection by using a superconducting transition-edge sensor microcalorimeter with electrothermal feedback.
[12][9] On September 29, 2020, it was announced that Martinis had moved to Australia to join Silicon Quantum Computing, a start-up founded by Professor Michelle Simmons.
[13] In 2022 he co-founded the company Qolab based on the premise that "the semiconductor industry holds the key to creating a practical quantum computer by enabling the large-scale fabrication of high-quality qubits".