Trevor Lanting

Dr. Trevor Lanting, D-Wave’s Chief Development Officer, is an accomplished experimental physicist with over 15 years of experience in technology development. With an academic background in astrophysics instrumentation and device physics, Dr. Lanting joined leading commercial quantum company D-Wave in 2008 after completing a PhD in Physics at the University of California, Berkeley and an NSERC postdoctoral research fellowship at McGill University. His graduate work involved pioneering the development of superconducting technology for emerging astrophysics platforms. Dr. Lanting specializes in connecting fundamental research results and insights with real-world applications and focuses on harnessing quantum mechanics to produce fundamentally new computational capabilities.