Dr Heike Riel

Dr. Heike Riel is IBM Fellow, Head of Science of Quantum & Information Technology and Lead of IBM Research Quantum EMEA. Leading the Science of Quantum & InformationTechnology department she strives to achieve scientific and technological breakthroughs in Quantum Computing and Technologies, Physics of Artificial Intelligence and Semiconductor Technolgoy to develop new directions to computing.

She received the master’s in physics from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the PhD in physics from University of Bayreuth and an MBA from Henley Business College. She is an elected member of the Leopoldina – German National Academy of Sciences and the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering and has received several further prestigious honors and awards.