Sabrina Maniscalco

Sabrina Maniscalco is CEO and co-founder of Algorithmiq Ltd, a startup focusing on quantum algorithms and software, a Professor of Quantum Information and Logic at the University of Helsinki, and an Adjunct Professor at Aalto University, Finland.

She is the Vice Director of the Finnish Centre of Excellence for Quantum Technologies and serves in the scientific advisory board of several international institutions, such as the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (Austria) and the Quantum Technology initiative at CERN.

Sabrina Maniscalco has been working for over twenty years on quantum science and technology, her specific field of expertise being the effects of noise and errors on quantum devices. She obtained her PhD in Theoretical Physics at the University of Palermo (Italy) in 2004. She has held academic research positions around the world, in Sofia (Bulgaria), Durban (South Africa), Turku (Finland) and Edinburgh (UK). She returned to Finland in 2014 to lead the Theoretical Physics Laboratory in Turku. She then moved to the University of Helsinki in November 2020, at the same time co-founding Algorithmiq.

She has published over 250 scientific publications on quantum science and technologies in international refereed journals, receiving over 10 000 citations. She has coordinated several international and interdisciplinary projects and is recognised as one of the leading experts in Quantum Technologies. 

She presently works primarily at Algorithmiq, leading her team in the ambitious mission of redefining healthcare and life sciences by combining quantum computing, complex network approaches, and AI.