APPQINFO - Key Persons
Matthew Filipovich graduated from the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy at Queen's University (Kingston, Canada) where he received his bachelor's degree in engineering physics (2020) and master's degree in applied physics (2022).
Matthew was supervised by Professor Bhavin Shastri during his master's studies where he specialized in the field of neuromorphic photonics. His primary research project was the design and simulation of an integrated silicon photonic architecture for training deep neural networks. He also published an open-source computational electrodynamics package, called PyCharge, for simulating moving dipoles and point charges. Matthew is a recipient of the Vector Institute Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence and the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Matthew will begin his research on the AppQInfo project "All-optical training of artificial neural networks" on 1 May 2022. He will be a member of the Quantum and Optical Technology research group in the department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Alex Lvovsky. The goal of the research project is to experimentally demonstrate an all-optical implementation of the backpropagation algorithm for training deep neural networks.
Matthew's primary research interests are in computational physics, photonics, quantum computing, and machine learning. During his final year of undergraduate studies, Matthew was the technical captain of the Queen's Hyperloop Design Team and competed at the annual SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition in Hawthorne, California. In his spare time, Matthew enjoys cycling, bouldering, and travel.
Matthew Filipovich moved from Canada to the UK.
Giuseppe Vallone studied Physics at the University of Torino. He got his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics at the University of Torino in 2006 (Supervisor: Prof. Alberto Lerda). From 2006 to 2011 he worked in the Quantum Optics Group of the Sapienza University of Rome. He was Assistant Professor at the University of Padova from 2011 to 2019.
Since 2019, he is Associate Professor of Physics (Professore Associato) at the University of Padova, where he currently teaches Quantum Information and related subjects.
Job Titles:
- Provost of Imperial College London
Ian Walmsley is Provost of Imperial College London, UK, and a Professor of Experimental Physics. He is responsible for the academic mission of the College, overseeing a nearly £1bn research, education and innovation portfolio. His research in optical science and technology ranges from ultrafast optics to quantum information science. He has pioneered quantum photonics for simulation and metrology, and is the co-founder of a start up in quantum computing, ORCA Computing. He was the Founding Director of the Networked Quantum Information Technology Hub, the largest collaboration in the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme, which made significant progress in developing architectures, platforms and technology for quantum computing and simulation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Optical Society (OSA), the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics. He was President of the Optical Society in 2018.
Lennart Jehle was born in Berlin, Germany and completed his bachelor's degree in physics under the supervision of Prof. Martin Schell at Technical University of Berlin in close cooperation with the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI) in spring 2018. During his thesis he investigated the influence of different substrate layers on the electrical characteristics of mono-layer graphene to path the way for graphene based integrated electro-absorption modulators.
During the first year of his master studies, he spent a semester at the physics department of the Technion in Haifa, Israel where he took interest in computational physics and multigrid algorithms. In summer 2019 he returned to the HHI but shifted his research focus to photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for quantum communication and took part in the EU project UNIQORN. In this framework, Lennart Jehle conducted his Master thesis with the title "Design and Characterisation of Photonic Integrated Circuits for Quantum Communication" under the supervision of Prof. Martin Schell and co-supervision of Tobias Heindel. In January 2021, he graduated from the physics faculty of the Technical University of Berlin.
His main interest focuses on quantum communication, where he specializes in quantum dots as single photon sources. He is also interested in a synergy of PICs based on different material platforms to form hybrid optical systems used for quantum computation and simulation tasks. Apart from his scientifical interest, he enjoys rock climbing, cycling and analogue photography.
Currently, Lennart Jehle is working on the AppQInfo project as a member of the Walther group towards the implementation of quantum dots as highly pure single photon sources into hybrid quantum optical setups. His supervisor at the University of Vienna is Prof. Philip Walther.
For his current position, Lennart Jehle moved from Berlin, Germany to Vienna, Austria.
Job Titles:
- Principal Investigator
- Coordinator of the "AppQInfo
Magdalena Stobińska, the coordinator of the "AppQInfo" project, leads the "QCAT" Research Group split between the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics as well as the Faculty of Physics, the University of Warsaw. Her research interests cover: quantum technologies, quantum optics, quantum information as well as condensed matter, especially quantum nano-optics, graphene and other two-dimensional nanomaterials.
Magdalena Stobińska graduated from the Faculty of Physics, the University of Warsaw. In 2008 she received an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in the Max Planck Research Group in Erlangen (Germany) and next, between 2008 and 2012, she was employed in the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . From January till April 2017 she stayed as a visiting professor in the Clarendon Laboratory, the University of Oxford.
Prof. Stobińska has been the Principal Investigator of several research projects: the Foundation for Polish Science "Homing Plus" (EU Operational Programme "Innovative Economy", 2012-2015), the National Science Centre "Harmony" (2012-2017), individual Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (7th EU Framework Programme, 2012-2016) co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW), as well as the MNiSW "Iuventus Plus" grant for young researchers (2015-2017). Currently, she leads the "First Team" project of the Foundation for Polish Science (EU Operational Programme "Intelligent Development", 2017-2020) as well as the National Science Center's "Sonata Bis" project.
Philip Walther is Professor at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Vienna, Austria. He
Rainer F. Mahrt received his PhD working in the field of site-selective laser spectroscopy
in disordered systems in 1991 from Marburg University, Germany. He was a research
associate with "Istituto di Spettroscopia Molecolare", CNR, Bologna, Italy in 1996. He
Job Titles:
- Senior Researcher and Group Leader in the Quantum Technologies Group at the University of Geneva
Rob Thew is a senior researcher and group leader in the Quantum Technologies group at the University of Geneva. He has over 20 years' experience in quantum communication, spanning fundamental to applied topics, and from technology development to systems integration. His current focus is on multipartite and multiphoton experiments for quantum networks. Rob Thew is currently the chair of the Quantum Flagship's Strategic Research Agenda Work Group and the founding Editor-in-Chief for the IOP journal: Quantum Science and Technology.