Nathalie

de Leon

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research interests: Building quantum hardware with color centers in wide bandgap materials, such as NV centers in diamond. Optics and photonics, surface science and materials engineering, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, nanofabrication, and cryogenics.

A person (face not visible) wearing a white lab coat and blue disposable gloves holds a square lab plate in their left hand. Their right hand holds a pair of tweezers which they are using to pick up one of several small green plants on the plate. — Jonathan Conway, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, received an innovation grant for the project “Engineering symbiotic plant-microbe interactions for sustainable agriculture.” Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

Since 2008, innovation funds have fostered research in AI fairness, sustainable agriculture, drug discovery and more

Princeton introduces a Ph.D. program at intersection of quantum physics and information theory

Three head-and-shoulders portraits. — Andrew Houck, left, and Ali Yazdani, right, are co-directors of the Princeton Quantum Initiative. Nathalie de Leon, center, is director of graduate studies for the initiative’s newly launched Ph.D. program.

Princeton expands its commitment to research and education in quantum science and engineering

Flat synthetic diamond illuminated by green laser light — Using specially designed diamonds with nitrogen-vacancy centers, researchers at Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a technique to measure noise in a material by studying correlations, and they can use this information to learn the spatial structure and time-varying nature of the noise. In this image, a diamond with near-surface nitrogen-vacancy centers is illuminated by green laser light from a microscope objective lens. Photo by David Kelly Crow

Four engineering professors receive Moore Foundation experimental physics awards

Winners of the Jacobus Award, four in all, pose for photo. Rodney Priestley, dean of the graduate school, is in the middle. — Lila Rodgers, Mira Nencheva, Binyamin “Benny” Kleinman and Jason Molesky have been named winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students with Dean of the Graduate School Rod Priestley (center).

Lila Rodgers wins Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton’s top graduate student honor

Three students working together at a computer — Hands-on lessons in writing computer code to control scientific instruments are central to the course “Experimental Methods in Quantum Computing.” Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

New course builds students’ intuition for quantum experiments

Professor writes on white board while talking with grad student.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Improving human health, energy systems, computing and communications, and security

Nathalie de Leon