**Nicolaj Zinner** is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Aarhus University and co-founder of Kvantify, a Danish quantum computing company he started in 2022 alongside Allan Grønlund and Hans Henrik Knudsen. He has been at Aarhus University since 2010, becoming a full professor in 2020, and earned his PhD there in 2007. His research spans quantum mechanical systems from fundamental physics to their application in future technology, and he has also worked at Harvard University and the Niels Bohr Institute. At Kvantify, he works on bringing quantum computing capabilities to real-world industry applications.