Lieven Vandersypen

Lieven Vandersypen, born in Leuven, Belgium in 1972, serves as Director Research at QuTech and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor at TU Delft, where he leads groundbreaking research in quantum computing and nanoscience. After completing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2001, where he made history by implementing Shor's quantum algorithm to factor the number 15 using nuclear spins, he joined TU Delft and has since pioneered quantum computing based on electron spins in semiconductor quantum dots. His research achievements include being the first to manipulate individual electron spins, implementing quantum algorithms on electron spins, and demonstrating quantum interaction between electron spins and microwave photons, with recent work achieving 99.87% single-qubit and 99.65% two-qubit fidelities. As one of QuTech's founders and a key architect of the Quantum Inspire project, he has fostered significant industry partnerships, including a long-term collaboration with Intel. His exceptional contributions have earned him numerous prestigious awards, including ERC Starting, Synergy, and Advanced grants, the Spinoza Prize, and fellowship in the American Physical Society, while his vision continues to drive advances in quantum dot spin qubit processors and many-body physics research