In Episode 67, Patrick and Ciprian speak with Rom\xe1n Or\xfas, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Multiverse Computing.
The team discusses industry applications of Quantum software, material science, Artificial Intelligence, and the future of Quantum disruptions.
Prof. Rom\xe1n Or\xfas is Ikerbasque research professor at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) in San Sebasti\xe1n, Spain, and co-founder and CSO of Multiverse Computing, the largest quantum software company in the European Union.\xa0
After obtaining his degree and PhD in Physics at the University of Barcelona in 2006, he worked as a research fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia, and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany, as well as a junior professor at Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\xe4t in Mainz, Germany. He was also visiting professor at the Universit\xe8 Paul Sabatier \u2013 CNRS, France, and at the DIPC. Prof. Or\xfas has achieved several awards for his work, including a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship, and the Early Career Prize (2014) by the European Physical Society.
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He has written a large number of highly-cited scientific articles about quantum research, including foundational contributions to the fields of complex quantum systems and applied quantum computing. He is steering board member of the journal Quantum, member of the \u2018Quantum for Quants\u2019 (Q4Q) commission of the Quantum World Association, partner at Entanglement Partners, member of the Scientific Committee of the Pedro Pasqual Benasque Center for Science, and president of the Specialized Group on Quantum Information at the Spanish Royal Society of Physics.