people

Who’s in the lab

Our team works across quantum networking, secure communications, and distributed quantum applications.

Head of the lab

Claudio Cicconetti

Claudio Cicconetti

Senior Researcher · Head of |Quantum⟩

Head of the lab since 2022. His research focuses on quantum network architectures and protocols, Quantum Internet applications and benchmarking, and QKD pilots and applications. He received his PhD in Information Engineering from the University of Pisa in 2007.

Senior researchers

Andrea Passarella

Andrea Passarella

Senior Researcher
Marco Conti

Marco Conti

Senior Researcher

Postdoctoral researchers

Federico Rottoli

Federico Rottoli

Postdoctoral Researcher

Analysis of multipartite entanglement in quantum networks.

PhD students

Owais Ishtiaq Siddiqui

Owais Ishtiaq Siddiqui

PhD student · 3rd year

Quantum key distribution (QKD) applications.

Quang-Phong Tran

Quang-Phong Tran

PhD student · 2nd year

Benchmarking systems and link-level protocols for quantum networks.

Sadaf Zahid

Sadaf Zahid

PhD student · 2nd year

Quantum-enabled secure collaborative learning.

Roberta Pantò

Roberta Pantò

PhD student · 1st year

Design and analysis of coordination applications enabled by quantum networks.

Roberto Browne

Roberto Browne

PhD student · 1st year

Distributed measurement-based quantum computing.