Research Director at CNRS laboratory - Sorbonne University in Paris.
European Quantum Technologies Flagship Strategic Advisory Board - European Research Council Starting Grant (2018) - coordinator of the Paris Centre for Quantum Technologies - CNRS Silver and Innovation Medals (2024) - Cofounder start-up company Welinq.
Scientific director at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching and professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich.
Otto Hahn Medal (2002), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2004), EPS Quantum Electronics Prize (2011), Körber European Science Prize (2013), Harvey Prize (2015), Clarivate Citation Laureate (2022).
Head of Institute for Experimental Quantum Metrology, PTB, Braunschweig
Professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover. Since 2023, member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
Quantum Computing team leader
Google Quantum A.I. Lab, John Stewart Bell Prize winner (2021)
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and 'Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor', National University of Singapore.
Prof. Dr. Arthur Ekert, Professorial Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. Maxwell Medal and Prize (1995) Descartes Prize (2004) Hughes Medal (2007) Fellow of the Royal Society (2016) Micius Quantum Prize (2019)
Head of the Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics, International Centre for Theoretical Physics Trieste
International "Luigi Tartufari" prize from the Accademia Nazionale Lincei (2016), the "Google Quantum Research Award" (2019) and an ERC Advanced Grant (2022).
Head of Optical and Quantum Programme Office
Manager of ESAs Strategic Programme Line ‘’Optical and Quantum Communication – ScyLight” at ESA Directorate of Connectivity and Secure Communication.
Full Professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza and Senior Research Fellow at the International School for Advanced Studies Sapienza, SSAS.
ERC-Starting Grant Consolidator (2012 and 2015), Medal of the Presidency of the Republic, Le Scienze per la Fisica Medal, Sapio Junior Award for Italian Research, Junior Award for Italian Research World Economic Forum (2015 and 2016).
Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology at UNSW Sydney, and CEO of the company Silicon Quantum Computing.
Pawsey Medal (2005), Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal (2015), Eureka Prize (2015), Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2015), L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science (2017), Australian of the Year (2018), Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) (2019), Prime Minister's Prize for Science (2023)
Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor and Director, Duke Quantum Center
Rabi Prize (2001), International Quantum Communication Award (2012), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (1997), Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (2015), Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics(2019).
Founder & CSO of eleQtron is the first German company for quantum computing hardware
Chair of Experimental Quantum Optics at the University of Siegen and is the world’s leading expert in quantum computing with high frequency controlled trapped ions.
Head of the Moore group at the Department of Physics at Yale University
Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle PhysicsAPS (2013), Lee Grodzins Postdoctoral Award – MIT (2015), NSF Early Career Award (2017), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics (2018).
Chief Scientist Quantum Algorithms & Innovation, Quantinuum, London
Elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020).
Scientific Director of the Quantum Institute at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
APS award winner, Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics Fellowship (2014)
Chief Scientist at National Quantum Computing Centre, Professor at University of Edinburgh Research Director at CNRS
VeriQloud co-founder, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) (2024). Elected member of the Young Academy of Scotland (2011)
Executive Director of the Quantum Physics group at the Quantum Research Center of TII, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Distinctions: Chaire d’Excellence, France (2017-2021), Honorary Professor University of Kent, UK, Awarded of Julian Schwinger Foundation Grant (2022-2026), Distinguished Professor MajuLab, France Singapore, Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter, University of Catania, Italy, Associate member of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) (Italy), Visiting Research Professor at the Center for Quantum Technologies (Singapore) (2012-2024)
Senior Director of the Quantum Sensing group at the Quantum Research Center of TII, Abu Dhabi, UAE
European Marie Curie Fellowship (2016), FET-Open Project Funding of the European Commission (2019), Emmy Noether Fellowship (2020)
Senior Director of the Quantum Communications group of the Quantum Research Center at TII, Abu Dhabi, UAE
PhD from the University of Bristol (2011), Research fellowships and Visting Research Associate Professorship at the Center for Quantum Technologies, Singapore, Development of practical industry-focused QKD and QRNG systems and Commercialization efforts for market expansion of quantum-backed security solutions, Editorial Board Member for Communications Physics at Nature Portfolio (since 2023)
Acting Chief Researcher and former Executive Director of Quantum Algorithms of the Quantum Research Center at TII, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Award for best PhD thesis in Physics of the year by the Brazilian Society of Physics (2009), Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) Barcelona (2008), Marie-Curie postdoctoral research fellowship at Freie Universitaet Berlin (2012), Grantee of the highly competitive Serrapilheira Institute (2015), Tenured Associate Professor of Physics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Associate Professor at the University of Milan and Scientific Collaborator Director of the Quantum Middleware group of the Quantum Research Center at TII, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Graduate from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Milan (2015), Fellowship for theoretical physics research and data analysis and software development for heavy-ion physics with ALICE at CERN, Associate Professorship at university of Milan, Recipient of Sergio Fubini's price (2017)
Acting Director and former Lead Researcher of the Quantum Computing group of the Quantum Research Center at TII, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Ph.D. at the University of Campinas (2006), Post-doctoral researcher at IBM T. J. Watson-Yorktown Heights (2006-2008), Research Staff member at D-Wave Sys (2008-2009), Tenured Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Sao Paulo (2012)
Centre for Quantum Technologies at University of Singapore
Fullbright fellowship at MIT (1986-1988), Postdoctoral fellowship at Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen (1988-1989), Co-Founder and Director of the Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual (1994-2021), Founder of the NNPDF collaboration for research at LHC collider at CERN, Geneva, Co-Founder of Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, Barcelona, Spain (2019), Distinguished Professor at ST Engineering (since 2023), Foreign Academic at the Academia de las Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de Espana (since 2023), Former Chef Researcher at Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi (2020-2024)
