Jan Goetz did his doctorate on superconducting quantum circuits at TU Munich and worked as
a Marie-Curie Fellow in Helsinki at Aalto University, where he holds the title of docent. In 2018,
Dr. Goetz span out IQM from Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Center of Finland
together with his co-Founders and raised over $600M of capital for the company since then.
In 2024, WirtschaftsWoche Magazin selected him as one of 30 executives to shape Germany,
in 2023, he was selected as Founder of the Year by Handelsblatt. In 2020, Capital magazine
selected him as one of 40 under 40 in Germany and he received an entrepreneurship award from
the KAUTE Foundation.
Goetz was in the Board of the European Innovation Council EIC where he now serves as an EIC
ambassador, and he holds a Board seat in the European Quantum Industry Consortium QuIC.
He is also and member of the German Federal Economic Senate, an EIC Scaling Club Council
member, member of the Hall of Future, as well as a Digital Leader and Global Innovator at the
World Economic Forum (WEF).