Speakers

Harry Buhrman is the Chief Scientist of Quantum Algorithms & Innovation at Quantinuum and a professor of algorithms, complexity theory, and quantum computing at the University of Amsterdam. He is also the director of QuSoft, a research center for quantum software, which he founded in 2015.

He built the quantum computing group in the Netherlands, which was one of the first groups worldwide working on quantum information processing. Buhrman's research focuses on quantum computing, algorithms, and complexity theory, and applications of quantum computing to society and industry. He co-developed the area of quantum communication complexity and demonstrated for the first time that certain communication tasks can be solved (exponentially) more efficiently with quantum resources.