Stefan Woerner           

Dr. Stefan Woerner is a Principal Research Staff Member and Manager of the Quantum Applications Research & Software group of IBM Quantum at IBM Research Europe - Zurich. He received a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from ETH Zurich in 2010, and a Doctor of Sciences in Operations Management from ETH Zurich in 2013 for his thesis on Convex Optimization in Supply Chain Management. The focus of his research is the development and analysis of quantum algorithms for optimization, simulation, and machine learning as well as their practical applications, particularly in finance.