Maria Spiropulu
Maria Spiropulu is a particle physicist and the Shang-Yi Ch’en Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. She is Cofounder of Bohr Quantum Technology, an advanced quantum networking technologies startup. Her recent research includes testing wormhole teleportation protocols, advancing quantum teleportation networks, optimizing real time AI on field-programmable gate arrays and application-specific integrated circuits, and developing and building an ultraprecision multichannel timing sensor system for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider at CERN. She was Cochair of Elementary Particle Physics: The Higgs and Beyond 2025, a consensus study report for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that presents a forty-year strategic vision for the field of particle physics. She also coauthored the Department of Energy’s 2020 Quantum Internet Blueprint report.