Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew: דורית אהרונוב‎; born 1970) is an Israeli computer scientist specializing in quantum computing.

Aharonov received her doctorate in 1999 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is now a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Her thesis was entitled "Noisy Quantum Computation."

In 2005, Aharonov was profiled by the journal Nature as one of four "young theorists... who are making waves in their chosen fields."

[edit] External links

• Aharonov's home page at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Profile in Nature
• Dorit Aharonov in panel discussion, "Harnessing Quantum Physics" with Michele Mosca, Avi Wigderson, Daniel Gottesman, Peter Shor,and Ignacio Cirac.

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