​Prof. Pollanen leads the Laboratory for Hybrid Quantum Systems (LHQS) at MSU and also serves as the Associate Director of the MSU Center for Quantum Computing Science and Engineering. He is also a co-founder and Chief Science Officer of EeroQ Quantum Hardware Corporation, which is a quantum computing startup company located in Chicago working on developing scalable quantum computing hardware based on the spins of trapped electron systems. Before joining the faculty at MSU he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) at Caltech. Pollanen received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University.