Thorsten is the executive director of development and engineering at Orange Quantum Systems. Before co-founding Orange Quantum Systems Thorsten was part of the team who developed Quantum Inspire, Europe's first quantum computer in the cloud (www.quantum-inspire.com) He received his Diploma (MSc equivalent) in Physics and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany. He has been involved in various projects in academia and the semiconductor industry, spanning from “beyond CMOS” device physics to Silicon Valley tech consultancy and EUV lithography.