CEO & Founder, Q-CTRL | Award-winning experimental quantum physicist | TEDx Speaker | Professor of Quantum Physics and Quantum Technology

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Michael J Biercuk is the CEO and Founder of Q-CTRL, a venture-capital-backed company that provides disciplined control engineering solutions to harness the power of quantum physics for next-generation technologies.

Q-CTRL is built on Michael’s research leading the Quantum Control Lab at the University of Sydney, where he is a Professor of Quantum Physics and Quantum Technology. Michael holds both CEO and Professorial positions concurrently and in his academic role is a chief investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems.

An award-winning experimental quantum physicist, Michael speaks with clarity and authority about science and technology, and is adept at making physics accessible for a lay audience, such as with his TEDxSydney performance in 2016 and articles in publications such as ABC Science, The Conversationand the Australian Financial Review.

Michael enjoys working at the intersection of science, technology, watchmaking and fashion, and can make difficult concepts entertaining, from what electricity is to how computers work.

Michael is one of the world’s leading experts in the new emerging field of quantum technology; the work he is doing promises to be as transformational in the 21st century as harnessing electricity was in the 19th.

He also has an active creative collaboration with luxury watchmaker A. Lange & Sohne, focused on the links between high horology and quantum physics.