Prof. Dr. Michael Walter

Head of Chair

Office address:

Room A 206

Postal address:

Theresienstr. 37

80333 Munich

Awards

since 2025: LMU Munich, Faculty of Physics & Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics and MCQST Cluster of Excellence
Full Professor (W3, Chair) of Quantum Information Theory
since 2025: University of Amsterdam, Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics and QuSoft Research Center
Full Professor (part-time) of Quantum Information Science
2022-2025: Ruhr University Bochum, Faculty of Computer Science and CASA Cluster of Excellence
Full Professor (W3, Chair) of Quantum Information
2017-2021: University of Amsterdam (KdVI, ITFA, ILLC) and QuSoft Research Center
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
2014-2017: Stanford University
Postdoctoral Scholar
2010-2014: ETH Zurich, Dr. sc. (Doctor of Sciences)
Thesis: Multipartite Quantum States and their Marginals. Advisor: Matthias Christandl
2005-2010: University of Karlsruhe (KIT) & Georg–August-University Göttingen, Dipl. Math.,
after undergraduate studies in mathematics and computer science
Thesis: Equivariant geometric K-homology with coefficients. Advisor: Thomas Schick.

"Tensors, Quantum Entanglement and Optimization", Trento/Budapest 2026 slides
"Monogamy of entanglement through the lens of computation", Kyoto 2025 video
"Robust Tests of Gaussianity", TUM 2025 slides
"Trading Space for Time in Nonlocal Games", OIST 2024, Banff 2025 slides video video
"Symmetries in Quantum Information" (Plenary Talk) ICMP 2024 slides
"Random stabilizer tensors – duality and applications", IHP 2024 slides
"Approximate QCAs and a converse to the Lieb-Robinson bounds", SwissMAP 2024 slides
"Combinatorics meets computation - and quantum information", 24 Hours of Combinatorial Synergies 2023 slides
"Tensor Networks, Fundamental Theorems, and Computional Complexity", Weizmann/ICMAT/Princeton 2023 slides
"Symmetries of Computational Problems and Optimization", Abel Prize Laureates Lectures CWI 2022 slides video
"Quantum Information and Spacetime", Strings 2022 slides video
"Noncommutative Group Symmetries and Optimization", Oberwolfach 2021 slides