Kristin Schmidt

Kristin received her PhD in polymer physics from the University of Bayreuth, Germany and continued her career at the University of California, Santa Barbara, BASF and SLAC National Laboratory before joining IBM in 2014. Currently, Kristin is managing the accelerated materials discovery group at IBM Research in Almaden. Her team develops AI solutions to help scientific experts discover and invent faster. She is also the vice-chair of the physical science council and in this role, she supports high risk, high reward exploratory research at IBM research.