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Richard Alexander Norte is a faculty member at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. His lab focuses on novel techniques for designing, fabricating and measuring nanotechnologies which meet the stringent requirements for quantum hardware based on optics and mechanics. Richard holds a double BSc degree in Physics & Mathematics from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech. Since coming to the Netherlands to work at the TU Delft, his work has been featured in Nature, Nature Photonics, Science, Physical Review Letters and twice on the cover of Scientific American. Richard was recently awarded one of the largest personal grants in Europe — $2.5 million via the ERC Starting Grant to develop next-generation optomechanics. Over the last 4 years, he led efforts within the American semiconductor industry as a director of microchip architecture, enabling a $26 million series A funding round for chip-based DNA data-storage. The Norte Research Group is part of the Precision and Microsystems Engineering (PME) department and Quantum Nanoscience department.