I am condensed matter experimentalist interested in novel platforms for quantum information processing. In my group, we are fabricating various sub-nanoscale devices and investigating their quantum mechanical properties at cryogenic temperatures. Currently, our focus is mainly on the development of the atomic spin-based quantum bits as well as on the realization of the topological excitations called Majorana bound states. These highly unusual excitations are predicted to show non-Abelian statistics and may become building blocks for a topological quantum computer.