Tommaso Calarco

Prof. Calarco pioneered quantum optimal control in quantum computation and many-body systems. He earned his PhD at the University of Ferrara and was a postdoc with Peter Zoller at the University of Innsbruck. In 2004, he became Senior Researcher at the BEC Centre in Trento and Professor of Physics at the University of Ulm in 2007, later directing the Institute for Complex Quantum Systems and the Centre for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology. He also conducted research at NIST and Harvard. Author of the Quantum Manifesto initiating the EU Quantum Flagship, he now co-chairs its Quantum Community Network, serves as Secretary of the EC expert group on quantum technologies, and co-founded the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC).