In a new podcast episode of ML4Q&A, Kathrin Dorn (PhD student, Egger group) speaks to Dagmar Bruss, professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physcs III in Düsseldorf. They talk about Dagmar's passion about quantum information theory, how a coffee break in Oxford changed her research focus to quantum key distribution, her experience with the impostor phenomenon and how she got involved in a supercosmos project in astronomical technology. 00:00 intro 01:35 from astronomical technology to quantum information 06:23 working at ISI in Turin and joining talks by Grover and Shor 08:10 from experiment to theory 10:38 how is your working day? 14:43 struggles and experiencing the impostor phenomenon 19:24 work on quantum key distribution 25:27 ongoing work in ML4Q 32:28 1 or 2? Visit https://ml4q.de/ml4qa/ for more podcast episodes Visit https://ml4q.de/stories/ for more stories from our researchers at ML4Q Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/ML4Q_cluster Visit the homepage of Dagmar's institute: http://www.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de/%7Els3/index.html Contact Dagmar via E-mail: m.calzavara(at)fz-juelich.de   Host: Kathrin Dorn Music:  Technology by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   Discovery by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   Title: Lunar Levitation Artist: Aakash Gandhi