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Antonio Acín is an ICREA Research Professor at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences. He has a degree in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He got his PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2001 from the UB. After a post-doctoral stay in Geneva, he joined ICFO in 2003. At ICFO, Acín leads the Quantum Information Theory group. The group activities focus on quantum information theory and quantum communication, with an emphasis on quantum cryptography, but also cover other fields such as quantum optics, many-body physics, quantum thermodynamics, of the foundations of quantum physics. His research has been awarded with 4 grants from the European Research Council: 1 Starting, 1 Proof of Concept, 1 Consolidator and 1 Advanced Grant, the latter starting in 2020. He also received an AXA Chair in Quantum Information Science in 2016.

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Mete Atatüre is a Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge and the Head of the Cavendish Laboratory. He completed his PhD at Boston University Quantum Imaging Laboratory on multi-parameter entanglement and then joined ETH Zurich as a postdoctoral fellow on quantum photonics. In 2007 he moved to Cambridge to start his research group. His research efforts straddle multiple material platforms to develop spin-photon interfaces for quantum networks and quantum sensing applications. His research has been awarded with 4 grants from the European Research Council: 1 Starting, 1 Proof of Concept, 1 Consolidator and 1 Advanced Grant, the latter starting in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America, Academia Europaea, and the Turkish Science Academy. He is also the recipient of the 2020 IoP Thomas Young Medal for his contributions to quantum optics.

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Stacey is a Senior Researcher at CWI since January 2017, where her main areas of interest are quantum algorithms and cryptographic protocols, and models of quantum computation. Before that, she was an IQIM Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) at Caltech. She received her PhD from the University of Waterloo in 2014, where she was affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), supervised by Michele Mosca, and informally co-advised by Frédéric Magniez. She currently holds an ERC Starting Grant. She also was co-chair of the QIP 2022 program committee. With Julia Cramer, she co-founded WIQD (Women in Quantum Development), a professional network for women in all areas of quantum technology, for which they were awarded the first QDNL Award. She has served on the steering committees of QCrypt and TQC (and was chair in 2021). She is Chair of the Lorentz Center Informatics Advisory board and a CIFAR Fellow in the Quantum Information Science Program.

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Richard Kueng is (full) Professor for Computing Technologies at JKU Linz, Austria. He and his team pursue an interdisciplinary research agenda at the interface between computer science (algorithms & computational complexity), physics (quantum information & quantum technologies) and applied math (convex geometry & high dimensional probability theory). Together with Hsin-Yuan Huang and John Preskill (both at Caltech), Richard Kueng developed the classical shadow formalism – an efficient quantum-to-classical conversion procedure that has made a lasting impact on quantum computing technologies. In 2023, he received both a START award of the Austrian Science Fund and an ERC Starting Grant for the project q-shadows: scalable quantum-to-classical converters.

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Maria leads the quantum machine learning research team at Xanadu, a Toronto-based quantum computing start-up. She co-authored a book as well as many papers on the topic of how quantum computers can be trained with data, and is one of the original developers of the PennyLane software framework for quantum differentiable programming. Maria received her PhD degree in physics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa in 2017, but also holds a postgraduate degree in political science and still spends some of her time understanding the use of machine learning tools for social sciences research.

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Christine Silberhorn is a German physicist specialising in quantum photonics, she is spokesperson of the Institute for photonic quantum systems (PhoQS) and heads for the Integrated Quantum Optics at Paderborn University. Silberhorn is best known for her role in leading research projects which develop tailored quantum devices and systems for use in quantum computing and quantum communication. In 2005, Silberhorn was a Max Planck Research Group Leader in Erlangen, heading the Junior Research Group Integrated Quantum Optics until 2008 until 2010, completing her habilitation in 2008. Her research work has been awarded by several prizes; most prominently she received the Gottfrie Wilhelm Leibniz-prize in 2011. She is elected member of the Leopoldina, of the North Rhine- Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts and Fellow of the Optical Society of America. In 2019 she became a fellow of the Max Planck School of Photonics.

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Jelena Vuckovic is the Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership, a Professor of Electrical Engineering and by courtesy of Applied Physics at Stanford, where she leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab. She joined the Stanford Faculty in 2003, upon receiving her PhD degree from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2002. At Stanford, she also served as the Electrical Engineering Department Chair, and was the inaugural director of QFARM, the Stanford-SLAC Quantum Initiative. Vuckovic is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. Her awards include the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, Geoffrey Frew Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Sciences, the Mildred Dresselhaus Lecturer at MIT, the IET A. F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize, Distinguished Scholarship of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies at TU Munich, Humboldt Prize, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), of the Optica, and of the IEEE.

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