Thilo Stöferle received the M.S. degree in physics from the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, in 2001, the Ph.D. degree in quantum optics from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, in 2005. Since 2006, he has been working with IBM Research—Zurich first as Postdoc and since 2007 as a Permanent Research Staff Member. His current research interests are quantum computing and simulation and light-matter interaction in nanophotonic cavities with quantum materials. He was the recipient of the ETH Medal in 2005 and the Dimitris N. Chorafas Award in 2006. Since 2000, he has been a member of the German Physical Society and since 2017 he has been a member of the executive board of the Swiss Physical Society.