Presenter

Laura Schulz serves as head of the Quantum Computing and Technologies Department at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching, Germany. She drives multiple efforts toward integrating emerging quantum accelerators into several layers of the high-performance computing (HPC) ecosystem. Laura is the principal investigator for LRZ on approximately 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.