Kate Timmerman

Kate Waimey Timmerman is CEO of the Chicago Quantum Exchange, advancing the science and engineering of quantum information between the CQE community, across the Midwest, and around the globe.

The CQE is a consortium – comprised of the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northwestern University, and Purdue University, – that fosters emerging research, trains the workforce of the future, and grows the quantum economy.

Under Kate’s leadership, the CQE has grown to include more than 50 industry and other partners, and the region has been designated a top global quantum technology ecosystem as lead of The Bloch Quantum US Economic Development Administration Tech Hub and National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engine development award.

Kate is board member at P33, a private sector initiative to turbocharge Chicago’s tech economy, and advisory council member for Argonne’s Chain Reaction Innovations.

Kate earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California, Davis and her bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College.