Prof. Cappellaro is the Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT. She is a Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, a Professor of Physics, and a member of the Research Lab for Electronics, where she leads the Quantum Engineering Group.

Prof. Cappellaro received her Ph.D. from MIT and then joined Harvard University as a postdoctoral associate in the Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, before going back to MIT as a faculty.

The goals of Cappellaro’s research are to design and control quantum devices for quantum simulations, computation, and quantum sensing. She combines theoretical insight into the dynamics of spin qubit systems and expertise in their experimental control to tackle outstanding challenges in developing robust and scalable quantum devices. With collaborators, she pioneered quantum magnetic sensing using electronic spin defects in diamond (the Nitrogen-Vacancy center). Prof. Cappellaro’s work has been published in more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and has been recognized by several awards, including the Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Merkator Fellowship from the German Science Foundation and the APS fellowship.