Heike Riel
11 - 12 November 2025
M Shed Princes Wharf
Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM
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Heike Riel
IBM Fellow, Head of Science for Quantum and Information Technologies, and Lead of IBM Research Quantum EMEA
About the Speaker
Dr. Heike Riel is an IBM Fellow, Head of Science for Quantum and Information Technologies, and Lead of IBM Research Quantum EMEA. She is dedicated to shaping the future of computing through pioneering scientific and technological advancements in quantum computing, quantum technologies, the physics of artificial intelligence, nanoscience, and nanotechnology—exploring novel paradigms that redefine computation.
She holds a Master’s degree in Physics from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Bayreuth, and an MBA from Henley Business School.
Dr. Heike Riel has received numerous prestigious honors and awards, e.g., elected member of the Leopoldina – German National Academy of Sciences and the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences; she was awarded the APS David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics, the Applied Physics Award of the Swiss Physical Society, and the 2022 IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award. She was honored as Fellow of the American Physical Society, and with an honorary doctorate by Lund University. In February 2022 she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and in 2023 to acatech, the National Academy of Science and Engineering Germany.
