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Jan Goetz

CEO & Co-Founder | IQM Quantum Computers

Jan Goetz

CEO & Co-Founder | IQM Quantum Computers
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Biography

Jan Goetz is a quantum physicist and co-founding CEO of IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), building next-generation quantum computers.

IQM has assembled an exceptional team of international quantum experts developing on-premises systems for HPC and special applications. IQM has raised €128 million in Series A2 funding in 2022.

In 2020, Capital magazine selected him as one of 40 under 40 in Germany, and he received the prestigious entrepreneurship award from the KAUTE Foundation. Jan is on the Board of the European Innovation Council EIC, the European Quantum Industry Consortium QuIC, and a member of the German Federal Economic Senate (Bundeswirtschaftssenat).

Jan did his doctorate on superconducting quantum circuits at TU Munich and worked as a Marie-Curie Fellow in Helsinki at Aalto University, where he holds the title of docent.