Awards

2026

Best Paper Award

IEEE International Conference on Quantum Control, Computing, and Learning (qCCL) · Aalborg, Denmark · July 2026

Paper: Optimized Compilation of Logical Clifford Circuits

Best Presentation Award (2nd place)

Pattern Recognition Symposium (PRS) · Duderstadt, Germany · July 2026

Talk: Discovering Logical Operations for Arbitrary Quantum Error Correction Codes with Machine Learning

Best Talk Award

ML4QT Symposium · Heilbronn, Germany · July 2025

Talk: Variational Quantum Error Correction: Learning Noise-Adaptive Encoding Schemes with ML

The award was endowed with €6,000 by the Dieter Schwarz Foundation.

Finalist, Quantum Future Award (master’s thesis)

Federal Ministry of Education and Research · Berlin, Germany · November 2023

Thesis: Variational Quantum Circuits for Policy Approximation

The award honors outstanding innovative scientific work in the field of quantum technologies.

Best Paper Award (2nd place)

IEEE Quantum Week · Seattle, USA · September 2023

Paper: An Empirical Comparison of Optimizers for Quantum ML with SPSA-based Gradients

Deutschlandstipendium

FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany · October 2020–September 2021

Sponsored by UniVersa Lebensversicherung a.G.

Best Teaching Award (3rd place)

FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany · November 2019

Course: Theorie der Programmierung