Oskar Painter

Oskar Painter is a Canadian born (1972) experimental physicist who works on nanoscale optics, nanomechanical devices, and superconducting qubits.

Since 2019, he is also Head of Quantum Hardware at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

[1] After graduation, Painter helped found Xponent Photonics along with Pete Sercel and Caltech colleagues Kerry Vahala and Amnon Yariv.

Painter joined the Caltech faculty in 2002, as an assistant professor of Applied Physics.

[2] In 2012, he became Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and was awarded a Humboldt Professorship in 2013.