Michael Marthaler has worked in the field of quantum computing for more than 15 years. He received his PhD from the Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2009. As a Postdoc he worked at the KIT, AIST in Tsukuba, Japan and at Saarland University in the group of Prof. Frank Wilhelm. In 2017 he co-founded HQS Quantum Simulations.