McGill University In 2004, Clerk became an
assistant professor and Tier 2
Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Theoretical Mesoscopic Physics at
McGill University. As an assistant professor and CRC, Clerk studied
quantum mechanical effects on a larger scale and how
quantum noise can be understood and utilized. He received a 2007
Sloan Research Fellowship to help advance his research into complex quantum-mechanical behaviours. His CRC was renewed in 2009 and he was also awarded tenure. Clerk's mid-career research focused on controlling quantum interactions between light and matter to develop advanced
quantum technologies. He helped establish the foundations of basic theoretical language used to describe measurement, control and dissipation in quantum optomechanical systems. Clerk's efforts were recognized in 2014 with the
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship In 2016, Clerk was named a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Theory of Engineered Quantum Systems.
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Clerk left McGill in 2017 to join the faculty at the
University of Chicago's
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. The following year, Clerk was named a
Simons Investigator in Physics. In 2021, he was elected a Fellow of the
American Physical Society for distinguished contributions to the theory of quantum optomechanical systems, quantum dissipation engineering, and other areas of quantum optics. == References ==