Johannes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at MSU. He is also the Associate Director of MSU's Center for Quantum Computing Science and Engineering (MSU-Q) and a co-founder and board member of the Midwest Quantum Collaboratory. Johannes is also a member of the US National High Magnetic Field Laboratory's DC Field/High B/T Advisory Committee. He thinks qubits, electrons, superfluids, superconductors and hybrid quantum systems are very cool. He's also pretty good at hard soldering, leak checking, threading the wire-bonder and machining ... or at least he used to be.

Before joining the faculty at Michigan State, Johannes was an IQIM postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) at the California Institute of Technology working with Prof. Jim Eisenstein. At Caltech, he studied the exotic properties and many-body quantum states of single and bilayer 2d electron systems in ultra-clean semiconductor heterostructures grown via molecular beam epitaxy (MBE).

Johannes earned his Ph.D. in 2012 from Northwestern University where he worked with Prof. Bill Halperin in the Low Temperature Physics Group investigating the properties of complex many-particle quantum systems and engineering novel quantum mechanical forms of matter. During this time, Johannes discovered a new chiral state of superfluid ³He, which he stabilized by introducing anisotropic disorder to the superfluid in the form of high porosity silica aerogel.