Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

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Cheers, Jeanette 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. The main focus of her work is to enable applications of quantum computing, to ensure that results of quantum computations can be trusted and application-driven benchmarking of quantum computers. 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. She has led numerous international research groups both at LMU Munich and at CERN. Her specialty was the search for dark matter particle candidates at the Large Hadron Collider. In 2014, she also received her PhD with honors from LMU Munich. In 2020, she received her habilitation and has since been teaching at the Faculty of Physics at LMU as associate professor, mainly teaching on applications of quantum computing. Besides this, she is also speaker of the consortium within the Munich Quantum Valley that enables applications of quantum computing.