Portrait of Christine Muschik
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University of Waterloo

Christine Muschik

  • 2025
  • Speaker
  • Physical Sciences

Professor Christine Muschik holds a University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo. She holds a faculty position at the Institute for Quantum Computing and an associate faculty position at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Her work on taming quantum systems to perform hard calculations is internationally recognised and has been featured by Scientific American and Forbes. In 2016, her results on programming quantum computers has been named as one of the “Top 10 breakthroughs in Physics” of this year. Today she pushes the frontier of scientific computing.