Dr. Ludmila Szulakowska completed her PhD in Physics of nano-materials at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Later, she was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow studying optics in low dimensions. New emerging technologies inspired her to pursue a research position at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, working on machine learning and quantum computing for nano-materials. She joined Quantinuum Inc. in 2025, where she leads the software development of quantum computing algorithms for condensed matter physics. Dr. Szulakowska has also over 15 years of experience in science outreach and scientific community building. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, world music and photography.