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Jessica Laignel
Co-founder, Operations & Partnerships
Jessica Laignel leads commercial operations and the consultant lifecycle at QWS — sourcing, contracts, onboarding, timesheets, billing, and compliance. She brings 4 years of operational experience inside a Luxembourg EU IT subcontracting firm, where she ran back-office operations for senior consultants placed at several major framework contractors. She is the primary point of contact for clients and consultants.


Stijn Fias
Co-founder & Technical Lead
Stijn Fias leads consultant screening and the AI/ML practice at QWS. He is also Director of Quantum Chemistry at Chembricks, with 20+ years of research and industrial experience at the intersection of computational chemistry, molecular modelling, and machine learning. He was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie outgoing fellowship in 2016 and has (co-)authored 50 peer-reviewed publications with 2,800+ citations and an h-index of 31.