Victor

Victor Land is the institute coordinator for QuSoft, the Amsterdam-based Research Center for Quantum Software. In this role, he supports the directors of the center and acts as a linking pin to external parties, including the different universities involved in QuSoft. Moreover, he is part of the Quantum Delta NL team, that works to strengthen the quantum technology community in the Netherlands, as well as Quantum. Amsterdam, which seeks to initiate R&D collaborations towards commercially applicable quantum algorithms.

He has a background in astrophysics (with an MSc in General Astrophysics from Utrecht University) and physics (with a Ph.D. from Utrecht University and the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics). He researched early stages of planet formation in complex ionized media around young stars at the Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics, and Engineering Sciences at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, the United States of America as a post-doctorate and research associate. He continued his career in science support and policy as a program coordinator at FOM, working in the office for public-private partnerships, after which he was the project officer for the Applied Physics department at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Damien

Damien Nguyen is a physicist and software engineer/researcher in Huawei’s Quantum Computing group. He is also one of the maintainers of the ProjectQ framework and language for quantum computing. On behalf of Huawei and ProjectQ, he is responsible for the design and development of the ProjectQ quantum compiler and some related projects. His education is in Physics engineering (MSc. EPFL, Lausanne) and Physics (Ph.D. University of Basel).

Jay

A world-class expert in low pressure and vacuum metrology, Dr. Hendricks serves as the Deputy Program Manager for NIST on a Chip (NOAC), an innovative approach that seeks to utilize fundamental physics to develop quantum-based sensors and standards. He serves as the Scientific Director of IUVSTA (International Union of Vacuum Science, Technique, and Application) an organization representing nearly 15,000 physicists, chemists, materials scientists, engineers, and technologists who are linked through their common use of vacuum. Dr. Hendricks received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Johns Hopkins University and his B.S. in chemistry from Penn State University. Dr. Hendricks has over 30 years of vacuum science and technology experience and has authored over 60. He is a two-time winner of the US Department of Commerce Gold Medal, one of which was for an innovative quantum-based pressure standard.

Dr. Hendricks has demonstrated leadership and chairs national and international vacuum standards meetings and symposia. His leadership is nationally and internationally recognized and is sought out on a variety of vacuum standards meetings and symposia program committees. He currently serves as the Chair of IMEKO TC16, AVS Recommended Practices Committee, and AVS Publication Committee.

Andrew

After a Ph.D. in ‘quantum oscillations in heavy fermion compounds’ and a postdoc in the physical asymptotics group of Bristol University, Andrew worked in the area of mathematical modeling, firstly at BAE Systems, then at Airbus Group Innovations, and latterly in the Space Systems branch of Airbus. His research interests have covered a number of areas, ranging from electromagnetics, antennas, propagation, stealth, and optics to communication networks and QKD. He is currently the technical point of contact for quantum communications at Airbus Space Systems and the technical lead of the EC project QOSAC.

Tommaso

Prof. Dr. Tommaso Calarco * 1969

Scientific degree: PhD in Physics, BA in music

Prev. positions: Professor of Quantum Information Processing and Director of the Institute of Complex Quantum Systems, University of Ulm; Director of the Centre for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Universities of Ulm and Stuttgart and MaxPlanck Institute for Solid-State-Research

Curr. positions: Director of the Peter Grünberg Institute, Institute for Quantum Control; Professor of Quantum Information, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne

Publications (5 most important since 2007)
T. Caneva, M. Murphy, T. Calarco, R. Fazio, S. Montangero, V. Giovannetti, and G. E. Santoro, Optimal Control at the Quantum Speed Limit, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 240501 (2009)
S. J. Glaser, et al., Training Schrodinger’s cat: quantum optimal control Strategic report on current status, visions, and goals for research in Europe, Eur. Phys. J. D 69, 279 (2015)
P. Doria, T. Calarco, and S. Montangero, Optimal Control Technique for Many-Body Quantum Dynamics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 190501 (2011)
S. van Frank, A. Negretti, T. Berrada, R. Bücker, S. Montangero, J.-F. Schaff, T. Schumm, T. Calarco, J. Schmiedmayer, Interferometry with non-classical motional states of a Bose–Einstein condensate, Nature Communications 5, 4009 (2014)
A. Acín, et al., The quantum technologies roadmap: a European community view, New Journal of Physics, Volume 20, (2018)

Michele

Dr. Mosca is a founder of the Institute for Quantum Computing, Professor in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo, and a founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

He is globally recognized for his drive to help academia, industry, and government prepare our cyber systems to be safe in an era with quantum computers. He co-founded evolutionQ Inc. to provide services and products that enable organizations to evolve their quantum-vulnerable systems and practices to quantum-safe ones. He was a founder of the ETSI-IQC workshop series in Quantum-Safe Cryptography. He co-founded softwareQ Inc. to help organizations benefit from the power of quantum computers.

He worked on cryptography during his BMath (Waterloo) and MSc (Oxford) and obtained his Doctorate (Oxford) on Quantum Computer Algorithms.

His research interests include quantum computation and cryptographic tools designed to be safe against quantum technologies.

Dr. Mosca’s awards and honors include Fellow of the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications (since 2000), 2010 Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013), SJU Fr. Norm Choate Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), and a Knighthood (Cavaliere) in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2018).

Thomas

Dr. Thomas Strohm received his Ph.D. in 1999 at the MPI for Solid State Research in Stuttgart where he did theoretical work on high-temperature superconductors in Prof. Cardona’s group. Thereafter, he joined the Corporate Research division of Robert Bosch GmbH. For more than 10 years, he worked in SW engineering and as a system and SW architect. Among other projects, he was responsible for the development of a SW engineering curriculum and until the end of 2016 gave courses on System and SW architecture at Bosch. In 2013, he started scouting Quantum Cryptography and, later, Quantum Computing. Currently, Thomas is coordinating the Quantum Technologies activities at Bosch. He is also part of Europe’s Quantum Community Network (QCN) and the Coordination Office (FCO) of Europe’s Quantum Flagship Initiative and furthermore active in founding the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC). Thomas is also part of the QRANGE public-funded project and contributes to the research on modeling quantum random number generators.

Govinda

Govinda Bhisetti is a Principal Investigator and Head of the Computational Chemistry department at Biogen since 2014. Previously, he worked at Vertex Pharmaceuticals for 22+ years where he led drug design efforts on several drug discovery projects. His research at Vertex led to the discovery of three FDA approved drugs: Agenerase, Lexiva, and Incivek. He is a co-inventor of these drugs and named inventor on 26 patents. He has also published 74 research papers including review articles and book chapters. His current activities include the application of state of the art computational methods in the discovery of novel drugs for CNS diseases.

Ariana

Ariana is an HPC/Quantum computing consultant at SURF (the Dutch ICT provider for universities and research centers).

She did her bachelor in Physic in Mexico, followed by an MSc in Physics and Material Science in a joint program between the ENS-Lyon and the University of Amsterdam.

In 2016 she finished her Ph.D. (cum laude) in the Computational Chemistry group at the University of Amsterdam followed by a Postdoc in Polymer Chemistry at the same university.

She joined SURF about 2 years ago to help with the quantum computing projects and is currently working in several quantum projects related to chemistry, quantum internet, emulators, etc., with different Dutch universities.

Andrew

Andrew Shields leads R&D and business development on quantum technologies in Toshiba Europe. According to Google Scholar, he has published over 500 research papers and patents in the field of quantum devices and systems, which have been cited over 20,000 times and has a Hirsch-index of >70. He is a member of the leadership team of the OpenQKD consortium in Europe and the EU Strategic Research Agenda Working Group. He was a co-founder of the Industry Specification Group for QKD of ETSI and served for several years as the Chair. In the UK, he leads the AQuaSeC project developing next-generation quantum communication technology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and was awarded the Mott Medal and Prize for research on quantum photonics and its applications.