Roman Orus

Professor, Co-founder and CSO, Multiverse Computing S.L.

Román Orús is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) in San Sebastián, Spain, and the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Multiverse Computing, the largest quantum software company in the European Union. He obtained his degree and PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona in 2006.

Following his doctoral studies, he held research positions at the University of Queensland in Australia and at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany. He later served as a junior professor at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and has been a visiting professor at Université Paul Sabatier – CNRS in France and at the DIPC.

Román has received several distinctions for his scientific contributions, including a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship and the Early Career Prize (2014) awarded by the European Physical Society. He is the author of numerous highly cited scientific publications, with foundational work in complex quantum systems and applied quantum computing.

He serves on the steering board of the journal Quantum, is a member of the Quantum for Quants (Q4Q) commission of the Quantum World Association, a partner at Entanglement Partners, a member of the Scientific Committee of the Pedro Pascual Benasque Center for Science, and former president of the Specialized Group on Quantum Information of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics.