Philipp Harbach

Head of In Silico Research in the Digital Organisation at Merck KGaA

Speaker

Dr. Philipp Harbach is the Head of In Silico Research in the Digital Organization of Merck KGaA. There he focusses on the digitalization of chemical and experimental processes in R&D, production and analytics with the help of modern computational modelling and data analytics methods. He is specifically interested in the application of quantum mechanical methods to industrial problems and is leading first initiatives to adapt these algorithms to noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers as part of the Merck Quantum Computing Task Force.