Anna Pappa is a DFG Emmy Noether Junior Group Leader at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the Berlin Institute of Technology. Her field of research is quantum communication, computation, and cryptography. Her research aims to bridge the gap between theory and experiments in order to maximally exploit the full potential of quantum information processing. She has worked extensively on delegated quantum computation, verification of quantum resources, and quantum network routing as necessary processes for wide-scale quantum computation and is actively involved in the industrial application and exploitation of quantum technologies.

Apart from the 6-year DFG Emmy Noether grant, Anna Pappa has received several other grants, including two Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships, an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship, Anita Borg Google fellowship, and recently a Hector Research Career Development Award. She is also a principal investigator at the Einstein Research Unit for Quantum Technologies and a scientific collaborator of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS).

 

Ariane Koek is a British independent producer, curator, and writer recognised internationally for her transdisciplinary work in arts, science, technology, and creating new residency programmes. Often cited as a world leader in the field of arts and science, Ariane Koek is best known for initiating and being the founder of Arts at CERN – the first officially organised international arts programme by the world's leading particle physics laboratory in Geneva (Switzerland). During her time at CERN, she worked with over 78 artists, including the fashion designer Iris van Herpen, Anselm Kiefer, the digital artist and musician Ryoji Ikeda, and Julius von Bismarck. Since 2015, she has worked independently as a consultant, producer, curator, writer, and on various cultural projects with international organisations including the Exploratorium in San Francisco (USA). In 2021, she was one of the invited Creative Directors of the official Italian virtual pavillon, CityX Venice, at the Venice Biennale for Architecture. She has also been closely advising the Cavendish Arts Science Programme at Cambridge University, for which she is a Creative Partner.