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Paul<\/span> Kwiat<\/span><\/div>
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA<\/div>

My research interests include:<\/p>

-Fundamental studies of quantum mechanics<\/p>

-Optical quantum information resources including single-photon sources, single-photon detectors, sources of entanglement, quantum random number generators, and adaptive optics<\/p>

-Applications such as quantum key distribution, quantum state and process tomography, quantum state creation and remote preparation, hyperentanglement-enhanced quantum communication, quantum-enhanced precision measurements, and quantum memory<\/p>

-The interaction of quantum states of light with biological systems, including the human visual system<\/p>

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Shaul <\/span> Mukamel<\/span><\/div>
University of California, Irvine, USA<\/div>

Professor Mukamel's interests focus on theoretical studies of ultrafast dynamics and relaxation processes of large molecules, biological complexes and semiconductors. Optical spectroscopic techniques provide a sensitive probe for molecular motions with rapidly improving temporal, spectral, and spatial resolution. Professor Mukamel's group develops and applies many-body Green function techniques for calculating dynamical processes, and explores the ways they can be probed using linear and nonlinear optical techniques. Recent applications include the studies of nonlinear response of conjugated polymers, biological light harvesting complexes, proteins, and optical nonlinearities in semiconductors, cooperative spontaneous emission (superradiance) in molecular aggregates, long-range biological electron transfer, collective nonlinear response and fluorescence of molecular nanostructures, and effects of chaos in quantum and classical optical response.<\/p><\/div>

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Ian <\/span> Walmsley<\/span><\/div>
Imperial College London, UK<\/div>

I\u2019ve been interested in the extraordinary properties of light for more than four decades. This has motivated our group\u2019s research across experimental quantum and ultrafast optics and optical engineering, with applications to quantum information and quantum technologies.<\/p>

Specific current areas of research include: the preparation and measurement of non-classical states in light and matter; applications to sensing and simulation; photonic quantum memories to enable scalable quantum networks.<\/p><\/div>

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Val<\/span> Zwiller<\/span><\/div>
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden<\/div>

- Professor at KTH: teaching and research on quantum photonics devices.
- Chief Science Officer and co-founder at Single Quantum.
- Specialty Chief Editor in quantum optics at Frontiers in Photonics
- Chief Science Officer and co-founder at Quantum Scopes<\/p>

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Charlotte <\/span> Allard<\/span><\/div>
Springer Nature, UK<\/div>

Charlotte completed her PhD in engineering physics from \u00c9cole Polytechnique de Montreal in December 2021, under the supervision of Professors Patrick Desjardins and Richard Martel. Her thesis focused on the encapsulation of organic molecules in carbon and boron nitride nanotubes, for which she investigated the encapsulation mechanism as well as biomedical applications. Charlotte joined  Nature Reviews Materials<\/em> in March 2022 as an Associate Editor.<\/em><\/p><\/div>

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Ileana-Cristina<\/span> Benea-Chelmus<\/span><\/div>
\u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne, Switzerland<\/div>

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus is an Assistant Professor of Microengineering at the Institute of Electro and Microengineering at EPFL. She is also a Research Associate affiliated with the group of Prof. Federico Capasso at Harvard University. 

Prior to her appointment, she was a Postdoctoral scientist and SNF fellow in the group of Prof. Federico Capasso at Harvard University, USA in the John A. Harvard school of engineering and applied sciences. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and a Master Degree with distinction in Optics and Photonics  \u2013 both from KIT, Germany. She obtained her Ph.D. thesis in Experimental Physics in the group of Prof. J\u00e9r\u00f4me Faist at ETH Zurich on quantum science.<\/p>

Her laboratory, the Hybrid Photonics Laboratory at EPFL tackles questions revolving around quantum sensing and metrology on ultra-fast time-scales and generation and synthesis of far-infrared waveforms at will. For this, they research the latest nonlinear integrated photonics technologies.<\/p><\/div>

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Aggie <\/span> Branczyk<\/span><\/div>
Academics in the Wild, Canada<\/div>
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After completing her PhD in quantum optics at the University of Queensland (Australia), Aggie spent ten years in academia, first as a postdoc at the University of Toronto and then as a PSI Fellow at Perimeter Institute. <\/div>
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At Perimeter, she helped launch Career Trajectories, a program and conference series to help students navigate careers outside of academia. This exposed her to the excitement of industry and prompted her transition to IBM Quantum, where she spent four years. During this time, she started the podcast Physicists in the Wild, interviewing physicists who pursued careers outside of academia.<\/div>
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Now, with insights from both academia and industry, she aims to create a life and career that amplifies her favourite aspects of both. In the coming months, she will focus on some of her passion projects, including Academics in the Wild, an initiative supporting physicists and mathematicians in career transitions, before starting her next professional adventure later in 2024.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Animesh<\/span> Datta<\/span><\/div>
University of Warwick, UK<\/div>

Animesh Datta is a Professor of Theoretical Physics and leads the quantum information science group<\/a> at the University of Warwick, UK.<\/p>

He is interested in most aspects of quantum information science, investigating topics theoretically with fundamental aspects in mind, but also driven by experimental challenges and technological ramifications that require new theoretical rethinking.<\/p>

His present research activities focus on quantum sensing (theory and practice of multi-parameter quantum metrology, imaging, spectroscopy), quantum algorithms, simulations, computations, and accreditation, quantum sensing at the gravity-quantum interface, and quantumness in complex systems, including quantum effects in biology.<\/p>

He is an Associate Editor of Optica Quantum and an Editorial Board Member of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences<\/p>

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Rafa\u0142 <\/span> Demkowicz-Dobrza\u0144ski<\/span><\/div>
University of Warsaw, Poland<\/div>

Rafa\u0142 Demkowicz-Dobrza\u0144ski is professor at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw. His main field of interest is quantum information theory with special focus on quantum estimation, quantum metrology<\/p>

Present research topics:<\/p>