Keynote Speakers

Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS

Since the beginning of 2023, PD Dr. habil. Jeanette Miriam Lorenz has been head of the department »Quantum Computing« at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS. She has already been working as a Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer IKS since April 2021 on enabling reliable and robust quantum computing. The main emphasis of her work is to enable robust and reliable quantum computing to achieve practical value of using quantum computing in applications. This, e.g., includes works on building quantum software stacks.
Jeanette Lorenz studied physics and mathematics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. Her studies were followed by many years of research in experimental high-energy particle physics at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and in Munich. In 2014, she received her PhD with honors from LMU Munich. In 2020, she habilitated and has since been teaching at the Faculty of Physics at LMU as associate professor. She has led numerous international research groups both at LMU Munich and at CERN, and major projects in quantum computing. Currently, she leads the consortium on applications of quantum computing within the Munich Quantum Valley, to name an example.

Keynote Title: Quantum computing beyond any hype: what it can do and what it cannot do