Yelena Guryanova is a quantum physicist who specialises in quantum information. She completed her PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Bristol in 2016. After this she moved to Vienna, where she held a postdoc position at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences for two years. In 2019 she became co-group leader and coordinator of the Young Independent Research Group at IQOQI.

Her research interests include: quantum algorithms, quantum thermodynamics, causality and higher-order processes in quantum theory and beyond. She has been main applicant on more than EUR 4.5 million in funding and prizes and organised at least four international conferences.

She is community oriented and has worked in several interdisciplinary projects, ranging from those with multinational pharmaceutical companies and emerging startups to groups with artists and philosophers; she manages an organisation to promote equal opportunities and diversity in quantum science.