Bettina Heim

Bettina Heim
Heim at the 2011 World Championships
Born	(1989-07-02) 2 July 1989 (age 36) Herisau, Switzerland
Height	1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Switzerland
Skating club	Winterthurer SC
Began skating	1992
Retired	2011
Medal record
Swiss Championships 2011 Zug Singles 2006 Biasca Singles 2007 Geneva Singles 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. "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. "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.

External links

• Media related to Bettina Heim at Wikimedia Commons
• Bettina Heim at the International Skating Union