Prof. Dr. Kristel Michielsen

Head of the division HPC for Quantum Systems

Head of the Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing (JUNIQ)

Group Leader of the Research Group Quantum Information Processing

Professor Quantum Information Processing at RWTH Aachen University

Spokesperson of Helmholtz Information Program 1, Topic 1, and PI in Topics 1 and 2

Forschungsthemen

Quantum Annealing, Quantum Computing, Quantum Simulation, Modular hybrid HPC-quantum computing, Quantum computing benchmarking and applications

Kontakt

+49 2461/61-2524

+49 2461/61-6656

E-Mail

ORCID 0000-0003-1444-4262

Adresse

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße
52428 Jülich

Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS)

Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)

Gebäude 16.3 / Raum R 340

Vita

Kristel Michielsen, a computational physicist, received her PhD from the University of Groningen (Netherlands) in 1993. Since 2009, she leads the research group Quantum Information Processing (QIP) at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre and is Professor for Quantum Information Processing at RWTH Aachen University. Kristel Michielsen and her research group have ample experience in performing large-scale simulations of quantum computers and annealers and in benchmarking and studying prototype applications for this new compute technology in optimization, simulation, machine learning and quantum AI. She leads the Juelich Unified Infrastructure for Quantum computing (JUNIQ) since 2019.

Publikationen

Complete publication list

Selected publications:

Willsch, D., Rieger, D., Winkel, P., Willsch, M., Dickel, C., Krause, J., Ando, Y., Lescanne, R., Leghtas, Z., Bronn, N. T., Deb, P., Lanes, O., Minev, Z. K., Dennig, B., Geisert, S., Günzler, S., Ihssen, S., Paluch, P., Reisinger, T., ... Pop, I. M. (2024b). Observation of Josephson harmonics in tunnel junctions. Nature Physics. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02400-8
Willsch, M., Willsch, D., Jin, F., De Raedt, H., & Michielsen, K. (2020). Benchmarking the quantum approximate optimization algorithm. Quantum Information Processing, 19(7). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-020-02692-8
Arute, F., Arya, K., Babbush, R., Bacon, D., Bardin, J. C., Barends, R., Biswas, R., Boixo, S., Brandao, F. G. S. L., Buell, D. A., Burkett, B., Chen, Y., Chen, Z., Chiaro, B., Collins, R., Courtney, W., Dunsworth, A., Farhi, E., Foxen, B., ... Martinis, J. M. (2019). Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor. Nature, 574(7779), 505–510. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1666-5
De Raedt, H., Jin, F., Willsch, D., Willsch, M., Yoshioka, N., Ito, N., Yuan, S., & Michielsen, K. (2019). Massively parallel quantum computer simulator, eleven years later. Computer Physics Communications, 237, 47–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2018.11.005
Michielsen, K., & De Raedt, H. (2014). Event-based simulation of quantum physics experiments. International Journal of Modern Physics C, 25(08), 1430003. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0129183114300036

Letzte Änderung: 25.03.2025