Kristiaan De Greve

Quantum computing

Scientific director and program director

Kristiaan  De Greve is scientific director and program director quantum computing at  IMEC, part-time professor at KU Leuven (ESAT-MNS) and visiting fellow at  Harvard University.

He obtained his engineering degree in Electrical  Engineering (summa cum laude with congratulations of the board of examiners,  valedictorian) at KU Leuven, with MS thesis research performed at IMEC and  Caltech.    He graduated from Stanford University with PhD in Electrical Engineering in  2012, where he was a Stanford Graduate Fellow.

He was awarded the Springer  thesis prize for his PhD research. He joined Harvard University’s physics  department as a fellow from 2012 until 2019, after which he moved to  IMEC.

He holds additional degrees in economics and physics from Stanford, and a  mini-MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is the recipient of numerous  awards and prizes and has authored multiple patents and over 30 papers in  journals like Nature, Science, Nature Physics, Nature Photonics, Nature  Nanotechnology, …, which have been highly cited.  

His scientific interests span a wide range, from advanced materials  research, quantum mechanics, cryptography and information science to novel,  disruptive computing paradigms and artificial intelligence.