speaker
Laura Schulz
Head of department Quantum Computing and Technologies,
LRZ
Quantum Computers in HPC Centers: The Path to Quantum-Accelerated Supercomputing
Laura Schulz is the department head of Quantum Computing and Technologies at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching, Germany. She drives efforts toward integrating emerging quantum accelerators into several layers of the high-performance computing (HPC) ecosystem. Laura is PI for LRZ on around a dozen grant projects for regional, national and European initiatives. This includes Germany’s Euro-Q-Exa project to seat a EuroHPC Joint Undertaking quantum system in Bavaria. Before joining LRZ, she was part of the Computation directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as well as LLNL’s High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC). Laura was named an HPCWire 2023 Person to Watch.
