Author

Prof. Dr. Kristel Michielsen is group leader of the Quantum Information Processing group at the
Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Forschungszentrum Jülich and Professor of Quantum Information Processing at RWTH Aachen University. Kristel Michielsen and her group have
ample experience in performing large-scale simulations of quantum systems. With her group
and a team of international collaborators, she set the world record in simulating a quantum
computer (QC) with 48 qubits. In 2019, she participated in a research collaboration that proved
Google’s quantum supremacy. She is building up the Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum
computing (JUNIQ) at the JSC. Her research interests range from classical simulations of
electrodynamics and quantum mechanics to quantum computing and quantum computing
architectures.