Professor Lloyd Hollenberg
Quantum bioinformatics and biocomputing
There are many interaction points of quantum technology with the biological sciences, from sensing to computing. This talk will focus on quantum computing and the potential for applications in bioinformatics and biocomputing as software and hardware development accelerates worldwide. A high-level introduction to quantum computing will be given, together with an overview of quantum algorithms for sequence alignment, molecular simulation and data analysis.
Professor Lloyd Hollenberg
The University of Melbourne
Professor Hollenberg is a Melbourne Laureate Professor and the Thomas Baker Chair in the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne. Lloyd also leads the IBM Quantum Hub at the University of Melbourne, and is a Program Manager in the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Biotechnology. He completed his PhD in 1989 in theoretical particle physics and in 1999 turned his attention to the then nascent field of quantum computing. In 2000 he developed a quantum algorithm for biosequence alignment, one of the first works defining quantum bioinformatics. Over his career, he has published over 300 papers. He was awarded the 2012 Walter Boas Medal, the 2013 Victoria Prize (Physical Sciences), the 2016 Royal Society of Victoria Medal for Excellence in Scientific Research, and led the team that won the 2013 Eureka Interdisciplinary Research Prize for the first in-cell quantum probe measurement. He was awarded an ARC Laureate Fellowship in 2013 investigating quantum sensing technology for biological systems, and was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2018.