Prof. Dr. Michael Walter

Head of Chair

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Room A 206

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Theresienstr. 37

80333 Munich

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Awards

Appointments and Education

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.

Publications

Selected Talks

  • "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