Presenter

Matthias Troyer is Professor of Computational Physics at ETH Zurich consultant for the quantum computing group of Microsoft Research. He has obtained his Ph.D. in physics in 1994 from ETH Zurich and spent three years as postdoc at the University of Tokyo before returning to ETHZ, where he has been full professor since 2005. He is a recipient of the 2016 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics of the American Physical Society and of an ERC Advanced Grant of the European Research Council. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics. Combining his interests in supercomputing and quantum physics has led him to quantum devices. He has tested quantum random number generators, validated analog quantum simulators for materials, explored the computational capabilities of quantum annealers and is now working on commercially relevant applications of quantum computers.