Sebastian Schmidt advises clients in areas including physics, telecommunications, and electrical engineering. He has specialized technical expertise in quantum technologies, photonics, and semiconductor manufacturing, as well as in mobile communications and related wireless standards (e.g., Wi‑Fi and 3GPP standards).

Sebastian studied physics at Goethe University Frankfurt and, as a scholar of the German National Merit Foundation, at Freie Universität Berlin. He completed his doctorate at Yale University, USA, with a thesis on superconductivity effects in semiconductor quantum dots. He subsequently qualified as a lecturer (Habilitation) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, with research on strongly correlated photonic systems.

At ETH Zurich, Sebastian led a research group specializing in quantum technologies based on superconducting electronic circuits. His research stays took him to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University, USA, where his concept of a quantum simulator based on light-matter interactions was experimentally verified. He also collaborated with IBM Research in Switzerland on the development of a prototype quantum computer for applications in chemistry and machine learning.

His diverse research activities resulted in more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, which have been cited over 2,500 times. In addition, he has given more than 50 invited talks at international conferences and taught master’s and doctoral students at renowned institutions.

Since 2018, Sebastian Schmidt has been active in intellectual property law, advising boutique, medium-sized, and internationally renowned law firms. He is a German and European Patent Attorney.