Winfried Hensinger

Professor Winfried Hensinger heads the Sussex Ion Quantum Technology Group and he is the director of the Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies. He is a co-founder of Universal Quantum, a full stack quantum computing company, where he serves as Chief Scientist and Chairman.

During his PhD candidature, he spent an extended period at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, USA in the group of Nobel laureate William Phillips where he demonstrated dynamical tunnelling in a sodium Bose-Einstein condensate.

In 2005, he moved to the University of Sussex, where he is now Professor of Quantum Technologies. Hensinger’s group works on developing practical trapped-ion quantum computers, quantum simulators as well as quantum sensors in collaboration with a number of academic and industrial partners.

Devoting much of his life to utilizing the strange nature of physics to solve the world’s problems, he was featured in a documentary that followed him on his current venture to create a large-scale quantum computer.