Dr Sabine Tornow

Sabine Tornow studied physics at the University of Heidelberg and completed her doctorate in condensed matter theory at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. After a postdoctoral stay at Tel Aviv University, she held various positions in industry and research institutes. Among others, she was a professor at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, where she has been teaching quantum computing since 2014. Since 2021, she has been heading the Quantum Technologies division of the Research Institute Cyber Defence at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, which is also an IBM Quantum Innovation Center. She conducts research in the field of quantum computing and is interested in developing and implementing quantum algorithms and heuristics on quantum computers.