Dorit Aharonov

Dorit Aharonov is an Israeli computer scientist who specializes in quantum computing and quantum algorithms. Born in 1970 in Washington, D.C., and raised in Haifa, she took a master's degree in physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science and a doctorate in computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1999 with a thesis on noisy quantum computation, followed by postdoctoral work at Princeton and Berkeley. She works at the Hebrew University. She is known for the Aharonov-Jones-Landau algorithm, a quantum algorithm named after her, and for work on the quantum threshold theorem. Her honors include the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, the Michael Bruno Memorial Award and election to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2024.