Marek Pechal is part of the Superconducting Circuits team of the ETH Zurich - PSI Quantum Computing Hub. He joined the Quantum Device Lab in September 2020 as a Senior Assistant specializing on superconducting circuit design. After obtaining his bachelor's degree from the Charles University in Prague, Marek had worked in the Quantum Device Lab on a semester thesis and a master thesis project, continuing with a PhD project which he completed in September 2016. He then moved on to Stanford University to work as a PostDoc in the group of Amir Safavi-Naeini and later returned to Switzerland for a second PostDoc position at IBM Research Zurich before rejoining our group.