Stefanie Barz is a professor of physics at the University of Stuttgart. Her research focuses on quantum networks, including both the development of integrated photonic hardware and the implementation of advanced secure protocols. She has demonstrated various networked quantum applications, for example secure quantum cloud computing (“blind quantum computing”), multipartite computing in quantum networks as well as multipartite communication protocols. Stefanie Barz completed her PhD in Vienna in 2012 and afterwards was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow as well as a Millard and Lee Alexander Fellow at the University of Oxford. In 2017 she became a full professor at the University of Stuttgart. She received a number of awards, including the Laudimaxima Award by the University of Vienna, the Loschmidt Prize by the Austrian Chemical-Physical Society, and the Doc.Award by the University of Vienna & City of Vienna.