Britton Plourde received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000 studying vortex dynamics in superconductors. From 2000 to 2004, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley where he worked on experiments with superconducting flux qubits. In 2005, he joined the Department of Physics at Syracuse University where he runs a low-temperature research lab investigating various aspects of superconducting circuits for quantum information processing. Plourde’s key contributions to the physics and operation of superconducting qubits and related circuits include the development of tools for qubit control and readout and investigations of decoherence mechanisms and mitigation techniques for improved qubit performance. Prof. Plourde received a CAREER award from the NSF in 2006 and an IBM Faculty Award in 2011. From 2013-2019 he was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, and from 2021-2022 he was the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering.