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Pavel Hrmo

CEO

ZuriQ

Zurich, Switzerland

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I'm a quantum physicist at heart, with a passion for turning challenging control of individual quantum particles into a reality.

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ZuriQ

ZuriQ

Start-up

Zurich, Switzerland

Our mission: To unlock the full potential of quantum computing and solve pressing global challenges across various industry such as pharmaceutics, chemistry or logistics, dramatically increasing the hardware performance is necessary. Our quantum computers use perfect qubits – individual trapped atomic ions. Devices using this type of qubit have already demonstrated the highest-fidelity operations across platforms in small systems with tens of qubits in a 1-dimensional architecture where all-to-all connectivity is easy to achieve, but qubit number scaling is limited.
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About me

Pavel has 10 years of experience with trapped ions in various guises. During his PhD he worked to bring fundamental quantum control techniques from radio-frequency traps to Penning traps for the first time dreaming that one day they could be used to build a quantum computer. He then moved to the University of Innsbruck to the world-renowned lab of Prof. Rainer Blatt to work on scaling quantum computation in radio-frequency surface chip traps with mixed ionic species. While there he co-developed a novel entangling gate mechanism for ions that storage information in more levels than just two levels. Four years ago, he joined the Penning team at ETH Zürich and off the back of a big scientific breakthrough he co-founded ZuriQ in April 2024.

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Tuesday, 14 October 2025

14:00 - 16:00

Session B - Quantum Computing

Location:Event hallTrack:Session B – Quantum Computing