Overview

The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program for Quantum Systems Integration was established in 2023 at RWTH Aachen, funded by a generous donation from BMW.

The doctoral school establishes six collaborative PhD projects in the area of quantum computing.

Academic coordinator: Dominique Unruh

Project Doctoral student PIs / Supervisors
Qubit-aware quantum algorithm development for industrial use cases Nikolaos Louloudis Mario Berta, Dominique Unruh
Towards Zero-Defect Quantum Programs Christina Gehnen Joost-Pieter Katoen, Dominique Unruh
Software Engineering of a Quantum Computer Firmware and Hardware Characterization Stack using Agile Methods Marc Schmidt Bernhard Rumpe, Hendrik Bluhm
Quantum Gaussian Process Emulation for Engineering Applications Oliver Ahrend Julia Kowalski, Sebastian Trimpe
Compiler Optimization for Shuttling-Based Quantum Computing Architectures Roy Hermanns Thomas Noll, Hendrik Bluhm, Markus Müller
Solving Inverse Problems with Quantum Physics-Informed Machine Learning TBA Norbert Hosters, Matthias Möller

News

  • 2025-10-15: The third colloquium of the doctoral school will take place. Marc Schmidt and Roy Hermanns will present their work.
  • 2025-06-30: Publication: Gehnen, Unruh, Katoen, Bayesian Inference in Quantum Programs at ICALP 2025.
  • 2025-06-01: The second colloquium of the doctoral school took place. Christina and Oliver presented their work.
  • 2024-11-13: Publication: Noll, Gehnen, Hermanns, Quantum Computing: From Weakest Preconditions to Voltage Pulses, in: Principles of Verification: Cycling the Probabilistic Landscape (Festschrift for Joost-Pieter Katoen).