Stephanie Wehner

Stephanie is Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor in quantum information and the Research Lead of the Quantum Internet Division. She represents the division to the outside world as Director Quantum Internet Division. Her goal is to understand the world of small particles – the laws of quantum mechanics – in order to construct better networks and computers. Quantum bits behave quite differently than classical bits, and allow us to solve tasks that are provably impossible for any classical device. Stephanie’s research advances quantum information theory and its applications to both computer science and physics. She has worked extensively in quantum cryptography and communication, and one of her goals is to overcome the theoretical challenges in building large scale quantum networks. As part of the Quantum Internet Team at QuTech, she works with experimentalists in order to jointly realize this goal.

Stephanie is one the founders of QCRYPT, which has become the largest conference in quantum cryptography. She has written numerous scientific articles in both physics and computer science. From 2010 to 2014, her research group was located at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, where she was first Assistant and later Associate Professor. Previously, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology in the group of John Preskill. In a former life, she worked as a professional hacker in industry.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Amsterdam (2004 — 2008)
• Master's Degree University of Amsterdam (2000 — 2004)
• UNSW Australia (2003 — 2003)

Companies

• Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor TU Delft (2016)
• Roadmap Leader Quantum Internet and Networked Computing QuTech (2016)
• Associate Professor TU Delft (2014 — 2016)
• Associate Professor National University of Singapore (2013 — 2014)
• Principal Investigator Centre for Quantum Technologies (2010 — 2014)
• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2010 — 2013)
• Postdoctoral Scholar Caltech (2008 — 2010)
• PHD Graduate Student Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (2004 — 2008)
• Hacker ITSX BV (1999 — 2002)