Burkard was a faculty member at
RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and served as an SNF assistant professor at the University of Basel. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the IBM
Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. His research focuses on the theory of solid-state qubits and hybrid quantum systems, contributing to advancements in quantum information science. Burkard proposed methods to perform quantum gate operations on spin qubits and couple spin qubits to photons. In 2024, the
American Physical Society elected him as one of its
Fellows. Burkard has contributed to academic publishing as a member of the editorial board for Materials for Quantum Technology and previously served on the editorial board for
Scientific Reports. He was also a Coordinating Founding Editor for
Quantum. He is currently a Member of the editorial board of PRX Quantum. == References ==