Yossef E. Panfil completed his BSc at JCT and then his MSc in Applied Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Then he moved on towards a Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at Prof. Uri Banin’s group. His Ph.D. research focused on coupling effects in coupled colloidal Semiconductor QD molecules, using a combination of novel single nanocrystal spectroscopy methods and numerical computations. Then, as a post-doctoral researcher, Yossi joined Prof. Lee Bassett’s lab in the Electrical and Systems Engineering department at the University of Pennsylvania. Yossi’s research aims to discover new defects in bulk and nanocrystal semiconductors that can serve as spin qubits for future quantum technologies. Yossi was awarded a Zuckerman STEM Leadership fellowship for his postdoctoral research.