Dr Karen Wintersperger
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Dr Karen Wintersperger

Research Scientist,

Siemens AG

Karen Wintersperger received her PhD in physics from LMU Munich working on experimental quantum simulation with ultracold atoms in optical lattices. In her current position, she is evaluating industrial quantum computing use cases and is pursuing research in the fields of quantum optimization, quantum machine learning and hardware-software co-design for quantum computers. Since 2023, Karen is leading the working group Quantum Machine learning and Optimization of the QUTAC industry consortium.