<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21893" src="https://ancient.cybermaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Heike-Riel.png" alt="" width="1200" height="800" /> <blockquote> <p class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body" style="text-align: left;">"Right now, there is no problem that a <a href="https://ancient.cybermaterial.com/definition-quantum-computer/">quantum computer</a> can solve faster than a classical <a href="https://ancient.cybermaterial.com/quantum-computing-for-computer-scientists-2/">computer</a>, which is of value to a CIO but the technology is evolving fast. Suddenly, there might be enough qubits to solve a problem that is of high value to a business with a quantum computer." <strong>Heike Riel - IBM Fellow, Head Science & Technology, Lead IBM Research Quantum Europe / Africa</strong></p> </blockquote> Source: <strong><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/quantum-computers-are-coming-get-ready-for-them-to-change-everything/">ZDNet</a></strong> <strong>About Heike Riel:</strong> <p style="text-align: justify;">Heike E. Riel is a nanotechnologist known for developing OLED displays. She works for IBM Research – Zurich, where she is Director of IoT Technology and AI Solutions, and Director of the Physical Sciences Department.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Beyond her work on display technology, she is an expert in molecular electronics and nanoscale semiconductors.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Riel has a diploma in physics from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. She completed her doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 2003 at the University of Bayreuth, and in 2011 earned an MBA at the Henley Business School of the University of Reading.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Riel became an IBM Fellow in 2013. In 2015 she joined the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, and in the same year was given an honorary doctorate by Lund University.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In 2017 she was chosen by the American Physical Society as the winner of their David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics "for seminal achievements in the science and technology of nanoscale electronics, particularly the exploration of novel materials such as semiconducting nanowires, molecules and organic materials for future nanoscale devices, and outstanding presentations and outreach for general audiences".</p>