Assoc. Prof Marko RANCIC

Marko Rančić is an Associate Professor in High Performance and Quantum Computing and Head of the Quantum Algorithms and Technologies of Emulation in High Performance Computing group.

His research is in the domain of quantum algorithms and quantum hardware closely coupled to high-performance computing systems. He tries to find ‘’practical” value in early noisy quantum computers, understand the limits of noisy hardware itself, and thinks how to optimally couple quantum and classical computers. He co-supervised 3 PhD students and a number of postdocs.

Professor Marko Rančić teaches courses related to quantum computing and computational methods.

He participated in the national science popularisation science slam called ‘’Fame lab” and won the third prize in 2008. He authored a number of popular newspaper articles for popular scientific magazines and mainstream newspapers (all in Serbian). He is a co-author of one patent application.

From 2013 to 2017 Marko Rančić was employed as an early-stage researcher at the University of Konstanz in Germany. From 2017 to 2019 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher et the University of Basel in Switzerland. Then, from 2019 to 2023 he worked in industry and was globally responsible for the research in quantum computing of TotalEnergies and was based in the outskirts of Paris in France. There, he managed a multi-million-euro research portfolio, with responsibilities spanning from conventional line management to researcher (intern, PhD, postdoc) supervision. He came back to academia in 2023, where he accepted an assistant professor role at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, where he was also the principal investigator of the applied quantum computing group. Finally, he joined the University of Luxembourg in 2024 as a tenured associate professor in HPC and Quantum Computing.

• 2007-2010, University of Niš, Serbia – B.Sc. in physics
• 2010-2012, University of Niš, Serbia – M.Sc. in physics
• 2013-2016, University of Konstanz, Germany – Doctor of Natural Sciences in Theoretical Quantum Physics