SQMS Center

Akshay Murthy

Akshay Murthy

Akshay Murthy

Materials Focus Area Lead
Performance Variations, Lead

Associate Scientist, Fermilab

Akshay Murthy is an associate scientist and group leader at Fermilab. As part of the SQMS Center, he leads the materials focus area. His research focuses in the area of materials characterization and fabrication of superconducting qubits. This involves the use of electron microscopy and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry to identify potential sources of quantum decoherence in these systems.

Akshay received his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University in 2020 and his B.S. in materials science and engineering in 2015 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.