Harry Buhrman

Harry Buhrman is chief scientist quantum algorithms & innovation at Quantinuum. He is also professor of algorithms, complexity theory, and quantum computing at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and founding director of QuSoft, a research center for quantum software, which he co-founded in 2015. In 2020 he was elected as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He obtained a prestigious Vici-award, is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, and WACQT (Sweden), and IQC (Canadian). He co-founded the conference series Quantum Information Processing (QIP) and chaired the first steering committee.  

Buhrman’s current research interests are: Quantum Computing, Quantum Information Theory, Quantum Cryptography, Computational Complexity Theory, Kolmogorov complexity, Distributed Computing, Computational Learning Theory, and Computational Biology.