Florian Preis

Florian Preis is currently the Head of Software and Applications and Quantum Application Development Lead Germany at Quantum Brilliance, a position they have held since 2021. From 2018 to 2021, they were an IBM Quantum Ambassador and Data Scientist at IBM. In this role, they led the Tiger Team for Industry, representing IBM Quantum in Austria, organizing workshops and lectures on quantum computing, and serving as a point of contact for clients and academia. Florian also worked on NLP related projects and automated document processing and smart document understanding. From 2010 to 2018, they were a University Assistant and Research Assistant at Technische Universität Wien. Before that, they were a Social Worker at Evangelische Diakonie Österrreich from 2002 to 2010.

Florian Preis obtained a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Technische Physik from Technische Universität Wien between 2010 and 2014. Florian also obtained a Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.Ing.) in Technische Physik from Technische Universität Wien between 2002 and 2009. Additionally, Florian Preis has obtained numerous certifications from IBM and Coursera, including a Qiskit Advocate, IBM Certified Associate Developer - Quantum Computation using Qiskit v0.2X, IBM Quantum Challenge 2021 Achievement - Advanced, IBM Quantum Senior Ambassador, IBM Quantum Challenge - Fall 2020 - Advanced, GCP Data Engineering, IBM Quantum Associate Ambassador, Qiskit Certificate of Quantum Excellence, IBM Quantum Challenge, Data Engineering, Big Data, and Machine Learning on GCP Specialization, IBM Quantum Conversations, Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner, Industrial Products Industry Foundations, Applied AI with DeepLearning, Art and Science of Machine Learning, Feature Engineering, Fundamentals of Scalable Data Science, How Google does Machine Learning, Intro to TensorFlow, and Launching into Machine Learning.