Matthias Troyer
Microsoft
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- Biography
- Matthias Troyer is a Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, working on the system architecture of quantum computers and their applications. After obtaining his PhD in 1994 from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Tokyo, he was a professor of computational physics at ETH Zurich until joining Microsoft in 2017. Matthias is a member of the American Physical Society and former president of the Aspen Center for Physics. He is the recipient of the American Physical Society's Rahman Prize in Computational Physics “for his pioneering numerical work in many seemingly intractable areas of many-body quantum physics and for providing sophisticated and efficient computer codes to the community,” as well as the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics.