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Prof. Dr. ir Lieven Vandersypen is Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor in Quantum Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology and Scientific Director of QuTech, an advanced research center for Quantum Computing and Quantum Internet. He received a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from KU Leuven, and a MSc/PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University for the first experiments in quantum computing. He is a pioneer in single-spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots with applications in quantum computing and quantum simulation. He received Starting, Synergy and Advanced grants of the European Research Council. He is a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) and received the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize for Semiconductor Physics and the Nicholas Kurti European Science Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific award in the Netherlands.