Anasua Chatterjee, experimental physicist and principal investigator at QuTech and Applied Sciences, has been selected as a member of De Jonge Akademie (The Young Academy) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). De Jonge Akademie is a platform of fifty early-career researchers from across disciplines. Its members help strengthen science and scholarship, advise on science policy, and connect research with society. Members are appointed for a five-year term, with ten new members joining each year from across the Netherlands and from all disciplines.

The appointment recognises scientific excellence and a broad view of what science should deliver. That includes fundamental insight, responsible innovation, and engagement with the public. It also includes attention to the conditions under which science thrives, such as training, openness, and inclusion.

Anasua Chatterjee develops solid-state quantum hardware that can scale to larger qubit arrays, focusing on electrically controlled spin qubits in gate-defined semiconductor quantum dots. Her work targets the practical bottleneck of scaling: keeping many devices stable and repeatable despite cross-talk, disorder, and drift, by developing automation, feedback, and calibration methods for start-up, tuning, and fast readout. In parallel, she studies fundamental physics in hybrid semiconductor–superconductor quantum-dot devices that show induced superconductivity relevant to Andreev physics and hybrid-qubit approaches.

But breakthroughs in quantum technology will not come from hardware alone. They also depend on how we train people, how we share knowledge, and how we earn and keep public trust.

Chatterjee’s appointment reflects her commitment to strengthening the scientific ecosystem around quantum technology. Previously, she initiated the Quantum Training Laboratory in Denmark, a hands-on training initiative designed to help students and early-career researchers gain practical experience with experimental quantum systems. Her goal as a public-facing scientist is straightforward: expand access to essential skills, lower barriers to entry, and support the next generation of researchers in a rapidly developing field.

Anasua Chatterjee working in her lab