Laura Schulz, ANL Laura Schulz is the Project Lead for Innovation at the Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory.
Her focus is on future heterogeneous systems, integration and workflows. Before ANL, she was the head of Quantum Computing and Technologies at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Munich Quantum Valley. In this role, she led several quantum-HPC integration efforts at the regional and European levels, was the lead author of LRZ’s Strategic Plan for Quantum Computing, and the PI for Germany’s EuroHPC Joint Undertaking project Euro-Q-Exa. She led multiple efforts toward integrating emerging quantum accelerators into several layers of the HPC ecosystem: from placement and residency in HPC centers, through hardware and software hybridization to user-centric adoption of HPCQC workflows and applications.
Prior to moving to Germany, she was part of the Computation directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as well as LLNL’s High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC), which connected industry with the lab’s novel technologies in HPC. Laura was named an HPCWire 2023 Person to Watch.