Julia Kempe

Julia Kempe is a French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing. Born in East Berlin to a Russian family there, and educated in Austria, Australia, France, and the US, she holds positions as a researcher at CNRS and Paris Diderot University and as a professor of computer science in Israel at Tel Aviv University.

Kempe grew up in East Berlin, but as a teenager in 1990 she moved with her parents to Vienna. She did her undergraduate studies in mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna from 1992 to 1995, with a year as an exchange student in physics at the University of Technology Sydney. She then earned two Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) degrees in France, one in mathematics in 1996 from Pierre and Marie Curie University and another in 1997 in physics from the École Normale Supérieure. She completed two doctorates in 2001. The dissertation for her Ph.D. in computer science from the École Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications was entitled Quantum Computing: Random Walks and Entanglement, and was supervised by Gérard Cohen. Her second Ph.D., in mathematics, was from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation entitled Universal Noiseless Quantum Computation: Theory and Applications and was jointly supervised by Elwyn Berlekamp and chemist K. Birgitta Whaley.

She joined CNRS at the University of Paris-Sud in 2001 (overlapping with postdoctoral studies at Berkeley and the Berkeley Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), joined the Tel Aviv University faculty in 2007, and moved her CNRS position from Paris-Sud to Paris Diderot in 2010.

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