Wolfgang Lechner

He is the co-founder and co-CEO of the company ParityQC (Parity Quantum Computing GmbH)[1] and professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Innsbruck.

[2] Wolfgang Lechner earned his Masters and PhD in Physics from the University of Vienna with Christoph Dellago as supervisor.

[2] Together with his colleagues Philipp Hauke and Peter Zoller, Wolfgang Lechner developed a quantum computing scheme[3] which mitigates the fundamental connectivity limitations of quantum computers and solves general optimization problems through a software architecture.

[4] In 2017, Lechner set up a research team in the field of quantum optimization at the University of Innsbruck.

[9] Wolfgang Lechner has received a number of awards for his contributions to the field of quantum optimization.