Bert De Jong

Dr. Bert de Jong is a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab where he leads the computation sciences department and the Applied Computing for Scientific Discovery group. Research in his group encompasses exascale computing, quantum computing and AI for scientific discovery.  de Jong also serves as the deputy director for the National Quantum Initiative Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA)i and the team director of the multi-institution Accelerated Research for Quantum Computing (ARQC) Team AIDE-QC, both of which are funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research program. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Electronic Structure, an IOPscience journal, and a principal editor for Computer Physics Communications. de Jong earned his doctorate in theoretical chemistry at the University of Groningen, and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).