Jacob Sherson

Aarhus University

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Jacob Sherson holds professorships of Management at Aarhus University and Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University and is Director of the Center for Hybrid Intelligence and the game-based citizen science platform ScienceAtHome with +300,000 contributors. Jacob co-leads the pan-European Quantum Technology workforce efforts, coordinates the 17mio€ EU project, DigiQ, on Pan-European Quantum Master's education and is the director of the European Quantum Readiness Center. Jacob advises public and private institutions on AI and quantum technologies, is a TedX speaker (+300k views) and won the 2020 Falling Walls in Science and Innovation Management, 2019 Bold Award on Boldest AI + Boldest Scientific Project, 2018 Grundfos Prize and 2017 Ministerial Research Communication Prize​​​​​