After completing her undergraduate studies at MIT, Chu pursued her Ph.D. in quantum optics with nitrogen vacancy center at Harvard in the group of Prof. Mikhail Lukin. Wanting to try out a different quantum system, she worked on circuit QED as a postdoc in the group of Prof. Rob Schoelkopf at Yale. Through collaborations with the group of Prof. Peter Rakich (also at Yale), Chu also added quantum acoustics and optomechanics to her repertoire.
Since 2018 Prof. Chu has been a tenure track Assistant Professor of Hybrid Quantum Systems at the ETH Zurich. Her research focuses on exploring new materials, designs and geometries for developing superconducting qubits and cavities. Her experiments have demonstrated the entanglement of individual electron spins with photons in a solid state system based on nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond. She has also gained international recognition for developing a new system of coupling superconducting qubits to mechanical resonators.

As an Academic Engagement Associate, Sebâ supports the Swissnex team in connecting the Swiss higher education ecosystem to academic partners on the East Coast. Prior to joining Swissnex, Sebâ worked as a project assistant at the University of Bern and is an M.A. Candidate in Public Management and Policy at the KPM Center for Public Management. Before that, she majored in Political Science at the University of Zurich and focused her research and work on the strategic management of higher education and public organizations.