Nico Meyer, M.Sc.

• Since 10/2025:
  Senior Scientist of Quantum Compilation Group, Fraunhofer IIS
• Since 12/2023:
  External PhD Student at Pattern Recognition Lab, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Since 01/2022:
  Researcher at Self-Learning Systems / Quantum Compilation Group, Fraunhofer IIS
• 04/2019 - 12/2021:
  M.Sc. Computer Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 10/2015 - 03/2019:
  B.Sc. Computer Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 10/2014 - 09/2015:
  Bachelor studies in Mathematics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

I am an external PhD and only work at the PRL irregularly.
In case you want to reach out, it is easiest to use my company mail: nico.meyer@iis.fraunhofer.de

I kindly ask not to send me any requests for theses or student projects. If I have such available, you will find the announcement on the Fraunhofer job portal: https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/de/jobs/stellen.html🙂

Research Focus

Exploring the interesection of quantum computing and machine learning, in particular in the field of quantum error correction (and formerly quantum reinforcement learning).

Projects

• Q-GeneSys [Website]
• BayQS [Website]
• Bench-QC [Website]

Scientific Awards

• [07/2025] Best Talk Award at ML4QT, Heilbronn (endowned with 6.000€ by Dieter Schwarz Foundation)
  Talk: “Variational Quantum Error Correction: Learning Noise-Adaptive Encoding Schemes with ML”
• [11/2023] Finalist Quantum Future Award at BMBF, Berlin
  Thesis: “Variational Quantum Circuits for Policy Approximation”
• [09/2023] Best Paper Award (2nd place) at IEEE QCE, Seattle
  Paper: “An Empirical Comparison of Optimizers for Quantum ML with SPSA-based Gradients”