Bettina Heim

Bettina Heim
Heim at the 2011 World Championships
Born (1989-07-02) 2 July 1989
Herisau, Switzerland
Height1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Figure skating career
CountrySwitzerland
Skating clubWinterthurer SC
Began skating1992
Retired2011
Medal record
Swiss Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Zug Singles
Silver medal – second place 2006 Biasca Singles
Silver medal – second place 2007 Geneva Singles
Silver medal – second place 2010 Lugano Singles

Bettina Heim (born 2 July 1989) is a former Swiss competitive figure skater who now works on the CUDA-Q team at Nvidia[1] after spending several years leading the language design team for Microsoft's Q# programming language.[2]

Figure skating career

She was the 2011 Swiss national champion, and competed at two World Junior Championships and two World Championships.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2010–2011
[3]
  • Faraway
    performed by Apocalyptica
  • Brandenburg
  • Fanfare
    by Black Violin
2007–2008
[4]
  • Le Voyage de l'Empereur
  • In un'altra vita

Competitive highlights

International[5]
Event 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11
World Champ. 32nd 27th
European Champ. 28th
Crystal Skate 4th
Merano Cup 15th 4th
Mont Blanc 8th
Nebelhorn 17th
Ondrej Nepela 9th
Triglav Trophy 14th
International: Junior[5]
Junior Worlds 24th 19th
JGP Andorra 10th
JGP Croatia 20th 17th
JGP Czech Rep. 13th
JGP Estonia 15th
JGP Hungary 15th
JGP Romania 16th 6th
JGP U.K. 16th
EYOF 11th J.
Gardena 11th J.
National[5]
Swiss Champ. 1st J. 4th 2nd 2nd 4th 10th 2nd 1st
JGP = Junior Grand Prix; J. = Junior level

Quantum physics and Q#

Heim completed her master's degree in quantum physics at ETH Zurich, advised by Matthias Troyer[6]. She now works on the CUDA-Q as a software engineering manager[1] after spending several years leading the Q# language development effort for Microsoft.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ a b "From loop jumps to quantum leaps • ETH Zürich Foundation". ETH Zürich Foundation. Retrieved 2025-08-05.
  2. ^ "About Bettina Heim". Microsoft Research.
  3. ^ "Bettina HEIM: 2010/2011". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2010-01-14.
  4. ^ "Bettina HEIM: 2007/2008". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 14 January 2010.
  5. ^ a b c "Competition Results: Bettina HEIM". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 23 April 2014.
  6. ^ Bergamin, Fabio. "Giving it her all in both athletics and science". ETH News. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  7. ^ "The Women of QuArC". 30 March 2019.
  8. ^ "Intro to Q# - Intro to Quantum Software Development". stem.mitre.org.


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