ABOUT

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 on enabling reliable and robust quantum computing for applications.

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 completed her habilitation and has since been teaching at the Faculty of Physics at LMU as an associate professor with the main teaching field on applications of quantum computing.

Additionally, she leads the consortium on applications of quantum computing within the Munich Quantum Valley.