Barbara Terhal

Barbara M. Terhal (born 1969) is a theoretical physicist working in quantum information and quantum computing. She is a professor in the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics at TU Delft and leads the Terhal Group at QuTech, the Dutch institute for quantum computing and quantum internet founded by TU Delft and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research. Her research spans quantum information theory, including entanglement detection, quantum error correction, fault-tolerant quantum computing and quantum memories.