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Alba Cervera-Lierta is an established researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). She earned her PhD in quantum information in 2019 at the University of Barcelona, where she studied physics, and her MSc in particle physics. After her PhD, she moved to the University of Toronto as a postdoctoral fellow. Since October 2021, she has worked at the BSC-CNS and is the coordinator of the Quantum Spain project, an initiative of €22 million that involves 27 Spanish institutions to boost the quantum computing ecosystem by acquiring and operating a quantum computer at the BSC-CNS. Alba is also involved in the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking quantum computing infrastructures as the quantum technician responsible for one of the six sites selected to operate European quantum computers. Her research expertise focuses on near-term quantum computation, quantum algorithms and their applications, and artificial intelligence strategies in quantum physics.