23 - 27 June, 2024
Postillion Hotel & Convention Centre WTC Rotterdam
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Events
Stephanie Wehner
QuTech
About the Speaker
Stephanie Wehner is an Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor in quantum information at Delft University of Technology and the European Quantum Internet Alliance director. She aims to understand the world of small particles – the laws of quantum mechanics – to construct better networks and computers. Quantum bits behave quite differently than classical bits, allowing us to solve tasks that are probably impossible for any classical device. Stephanie has worked extensively in quantum cryptography and communication, and together with the Quantum Internet Alliance, she is working on realizing a large-scale quantum network.
Stephanie is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, has won a KNAW Ammodo award and is one of the founders of QCRYPT, which has become the largest conference in quantum cryptography. She has written numerous scientific articles in both physics and computer science. From 2010 to 2014, her research group was located at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, where she was first Assistant and later Associate Professor. Previously, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology in the John Preskill group. In a former life, she worked as a professional hacker in the industry.
