Assoc ProfessorElena Blokhina

Elena Blokhina received the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR, eq. DSc) in Electronic Engineering from Sorbonne Université,  a PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences and an MSc in Physics with highest honours from Saratov State University. Since 2007, she has been with University College Dublin, where she is currently an Associate Professor.

Prof. Blokhina is a member of the Institute of Physics and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She is the Past Chair of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems, the Chair of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society Technical Committee on Quantum Information Systems and Applications and the Founding Member of the IEEE Special Interest Group on Cryo-Electronics for Quantum Systems and HPC. She was elected to serve on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for the 2013–2015 and 2015–2017 terms.

Prof. Blokhina has served as chair, organiser and committee member for numerous international workshops and conferences in physics, electronics and semiconductor technologies. These include the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, where she held programme co-chair and other organising roles, the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, and the European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference. She also organised the Full-Stack Quantum Computing Satellite Workshop (Nancy, November 2024) and the workshop Devices, Sensors, and Circuits for Quantum Computers at ESSERC (Bruges, September 2024).

From 2016 to 2017, Prof. Blokhina served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, and from 2018 to 2021 she was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal. She was a Visiting Professor at Sorbonne Université in 2014, 2017,  2021 and 2025. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the UCD Centre for Quantum Engineering, Science, and Technology.

Her research interests include quantum computing, quantum information processing, quantum electronics, on-chip information processing.