Flocking to Asia For a Shot at Greatness

摘要

HONG KONG AND SINGAPORE-Ambitious academics have always been a mobile lot. But Stephanie Wehner has taken mobility to a new level. And her career choices reflect a fundamental shift in where some of the best science is being done around the world. The 35-year-old quantum information scientist completed her undergraduate degree in her native Germany, earned a master's degree from the University of Amsterdam and a Ph.D. from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam, and did a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. Then she asked herself: "Where would it be scientifically interesting for me to go?" The answer took her further west, across the international dateline, in fact, to the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore (NUS).