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Prof. Dr. Marius Grundmann is co-founder and CEO of SaxonQ, a University of Leipzig spin-off developing room-temperature, diamond-based NV-center quantum computers. He is Professor of Experimental Physics and Semiconductor Physics at Leipzig University, where he also serves as Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Earth System Sciences. With nearly 700 peer-reviewed publications and 40 years of experience in semiconductor physics, Grundmann has led SaxonQ’s development of a patented sulfur co-implantation process that raised NV-center qubit fabrication yield from roughly 10% to 85%, enabling the company’s SXQ128 and SXQ512 systems — the first diamond-based NV-center processors to exceed ten physical qubits.

Jonathan Reiner is Director of Product Solutions at Quantum Machines, where he translates cutting-edge quantum science into products that meet the needs of a fast-moving industry. He brings a rare arc from academia to product leadership: Jonathan earned his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science (STM studies of semiconducting nanowires), after an M.Sc. in Physics (SQUID-on-tip, advised by Prof. Eli Zeldov) and a B.Sc. in Physics & Mathematics from the Hebrew University. He then led research as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at UNSW’s Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology under Prof. Michelle Simmons. At QM, Jonathan progressed from Product Manager to Product Team Leader and now Director, driving innovation and customer-centric solutions across the portfolio.

Mike Asker is the Co-Founder of Equal1 Labs, where he is helping pioneer scalable, CMOS-based quantum computing. With a background bridging semiconductor technology and system integration, Mike focuses on developing compact, cryo-integrated quantum platforms that bring practical quantum computing closer to reality. At Equal1, he plays a key role in advancing silicon spin qubit architectures designed for real-world deployment and scale.

Andrea Morello is an electrical engineer and quantum physicist, and Scientia Professor of Quantum Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, where he is also Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T). He obtained an M.Eng. in electronics engineering at the Politecnico di Torino (1998) and a PhD in experimental physics at the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory in Leiden (2004), followed by a postdoc at the University of British Columbia. He joined UNSW in 2006. Morello’s group achieved the world’s first single-shot readout of an electron spin in silicon (Nature, 2010) and the first single-atom electron spin qubit in silicon (Nature, 2012), and his single-atom qubits hold records for coherence time and Bell’s-inequality violation in the solid state. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Royal Society of New South Wales, and received the 2017 Landauer and Bennett Award for Quantum Computing. He is also active in public science outreach and education.