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From internship to doctorate to head of department – Dr Stefanie Grimm talks about her exciting career at the Fraunhofer ITWM.

She shows how diverse the career opportunities at our institute can be and emphasises the importance of flexibility, both in research and in everyday working life.

The project »KIDAGO – Digitization of Health Data for Innovative Billing Systems« has been awarded the Fraunhofer Alumni Award »TECHNOLOGY4DEVELOPMENT«. The team, consisting of researchers from the »Image Processing« and »Financial Mathematics« departments, is being supported with a grant of 10,000 euros.

In an online article, our colleague Merrin Shajan, a financial mathematician and statistician, provides insights into her daily work at the Fraunhofer ITWM. Merrin works with statistical methods: she works on models to predict interest rate developments and to evaluate complex financial products. For example, she classifies pension products on behalf of the Product Information Office for Retirement Provision gGmbH (PIA).

The »QBN WG QC and A« meeting discusses use cases and algorithms in quantum computing as well as the path to fault-tolerant quantum systems.

Our expert Dr. Pascal Halffmann, Research Coordinator »Quantum Computing« is on site and gives a presentation on the topic »QC Meets HPC: Quantum Algorithms With Application in Finance«.

The fair is the central meeting point for the European energy industry. A team from our departments »System Analysis, Prognosis and Control« and »Financial Mathematics« as well as our division »High Performance Computing« are on site to present our innovative research results and solutions with a focus on the energy industry.