Barbara Terhal

Barbara M. Terhal
Born	1969 (age 56–57) Leiden, Netherlands
Education	University of Amsterdam
Known for	Coining the term "entanglement witness" Quantum computing
Spouse	David DiVincenzo
Scientific career
Fields	Physics (theoretical)
Workplaces	RWTH Aachen University Forschungszentrum Jülich IBM University of Amsterdam Delft University of Technology California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Paul Vitányi
Doctoral students	Nikolas Breuckmann

Barbara M. Terhal (born 1969) is a theoretical physicist working in quantum information and quantum computing. She is a professor in the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics at TU Delft, as well as leading the Terhal Group at QuTech, the Dutch institute for quantum computing and quantum internet, founded by TU Delft and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). Her research concerns many areas in quantum information theory, including entanglement detection, quantum error correction, fault-tolerant quantum computing and quantum memories.