Alexander Dreismann, PhD

About Alex

Alex is responsible for operations at PhysicsX, driving clarity on strategic objectives and establishing ways-of-working and processes across the business to jointly achieve them. He cares particularly about building a company where people can be at their best and enjoy what they are doing, ultimately also achieving the best outcomes for our customers.

A physicist by training, Alex was a Marie Curie fellow at Cambridge University, where he completed a PhD in nanophotonics and published several papers in top journals, including Nature and Science. After a brief stint as a data scientist, he joined McKinsey & Company and later QuantumBlack as an Associate Partner, working with clients in TMT and financial services to define their analytics strategy and build machine learning solutions to address their toughest challenges.