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Matthias Troyer is Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President for quantum computing at Microsoft, President of the Aspen Center for Physics, and co-chair of the quantum task force of the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator GESDA. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the Rahman Prize for Computational Physics of the American Physical Society for “for pioneering numerical work in many seemingly intractable areas of quantum many body physics and for providing efficient sophisticated computer codes to the community” and of the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics.

After receiving his PhD in 1994 from ETH Zurich in Switzerland he spent time as postdoc at the University of Tokyo before returning to ETH Zurich. There, he has been professor of Computational Physics until joining Microsoft’s quantum computing program in 2017.  He works on a variety of topics in quantum computing architecture, from the simulation of materials and quantum devices to quantum software, algorithms and applications of quantum computers to quantum networking and quantum safe cryptography. His broader research interests span from high performance computing to the simulations of quantum devices and island ecosystems.