Sabrina Maniscalco

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Sabrina Maniscalco is CEO and co-founder of Algorithmiq Ltd, a startup specializing in quantum algorithms and software, professor of quantum information and logic at the University of Helsinki, and associate professor at Aalto University in Finland. She is deputy director of the Finnish Center of Excellence for Quantum Technologies and sits on the scientific advisory boards of several international institutions, such as the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (Austria) and the CERN Quantum Technology initiative. Sabrina Maniscalco has been working on quantum science and technology for over twenty years, with her specific area of expertise being the effects of noise and errors on quantum devices. She obtained her PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Palermo (Italy) in 2004. She has held academic research positions around the world, in Sofia (Bulgaria), Durban (South Africa), Turku (Finland), and Edinburgh (United Kingdom). She returned to Finland in 2014 to head the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics in Turku. She then joined the University of Helsinki in November 2020, while co-founding Algorithmiq. She has published over 250 scientific papers on quantum science and technologies in international peer-reviewed journals, receiving over 10,000 citations. She has coordinated several international and interdisciplinary projects and is recognized as one of the leading experts in quantum technologies. She currently works primarily at Algorithmiq, leading her team in the ambitious mission to redefine health and life sciences by combining quantum computing, complex network approaches, and AI.