Ramón Aguado is a Research Professor of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) working at the Institute of Materials Science in Madrid, where he leads the Quantum Materials for Quantum technologies group (https://wp.icmm.csic.es/tqe/). Internationally recognized expert in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, his research focuses on the study of hybrid quantum materials and their applications in quantum technologies, including Majorana and Andreev based qubits. In recent years, his scientific impact has been reflected in high impact publications, many of them in collaboration with prestigious international experimental groups. His work has been recognized in several international rankings where he appears as a highly cited scientist. He is president of the Condensed Matter Physics Division of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics (RSEF) and coordinator of the Quantum Physics and Matter program of the State Research Agency of the Spanish Ministry of Science.

Prof. Jordi Arbiol graduated in Physics at Universitat de Barcelona (UB) in 1997, where he also obtained his PhD (European Doctorate and PhD Extraordinary Award) in 2001 in the field of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) applied to nanostructured materials. He also worked as Assistant Professor at UB. In 2009 he was appointed as ICREA Professor and holds this position since then. From 2009 to 2015 he was Group Leader at Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC. He was the President of the Spanish Microscopy Society (SME) from 2017 to 2021, was Vice-President from 2013 to 2017 and from 2009 to 2021 he was Member of its Executive Board. In 2018 he was elected as Member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy (IFSM) (2019-2026). Since 2015 he is the leader of the Group of Advanced Electron Nanoscopy at Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), CSIC and BIST. He is Scientific Supervisor of the Electron Microscopy Area at ICN2 and BIST and the Scientific Coordinator of the Joint Electron Microscopy Center at ALBA Synchrotron (JEMCA). He has been one of the founder members of the European Distributed REsearch Infrastructure for Advanced Electron Microscopy (e-DREAM). Since 2023 he is Associate Editor of Nano Letters (American Chemical Society). He received the FWO Commemorative Medal (Flanders Research Foundation) in 2021, the 2018 BIST IGNITE Award and was awarded with the EU40 Materials Prize 2014 (E-MRS), 2014 EMS Outstanding Paper Award and listed in the Top 40 under 40 Power List (2014) by The Analytical Scientist. In March 2025 he has published more than 520 scientific papers, with 35200+ citations and h-index: 105 (GoS)

Associate Professor Natalia Ares works on experiments to advance the development of quantum technologies, with a focus on artificial intelligence for quantum device control and quantum thermodynamics. She joined the University of Oxford in 2013. She was awarded a series of fellowships, including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, and was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant in 2020. In October 2021 she was appointed as Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Tutorial Fellow at New College. She is co-founder and CSO of QuantrolOx. During her PhD, she focused on silicon-based devices for quantum computing at CEA Grenoble, France. She completed her undergraduate studies in Physics and a Masters equivalent in the theory of quantum chaos at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she was born and raised.

Mete Atatüre received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1996 from Bilkent University Physics Department in Turkey. Then, he joined the Quantum Imaging Laboratory at Boston University for his PhD studies. From 2002 to 2007, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Quantum Photonics Group at ETH Zurich. He joined the Cavendish Laboratory in June 2007 as a University Lecturer, was promoted to a Readership in 2011 and to a Professorship in 2015.

Andreas Bengtsson is a Research Scientist at Google Quantum AI. His research focuses on quantum information processing with superconducting qubits, with a particular interest in qubit calibration and quantum error correction. Prior to joining Google, he got his Ph.D. in 2020 from Chalmers University of Technology in the group of Jonas Bylander and Per Delsing. His doctoral research involved fabrication of high-coherence superconducting circuits, calibration and metrology of high-fidelity gates, and implementation of quantum algorithms. During his Ph.D., Andreas also spent time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the group of William D. Oliver.

I am a Professor of Physics at the Institute for Quantum Information RWTH Aachen University. I hold an honorary position as a Visiting Reader at the Department of Computing Imperial College London and I am a Visiting Research Associate Professor a the Centre for Quantum Technologies National University of Singapore. Previously, I was a Senior Research Scientist at the Amazon Web Services Center for Quantum Computing and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter Caltech. I obtained my PhD degree from the Institute for Theoretical Physics at ETH Zurich.

Immanuel Bloch is scientific director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching and holds a chair for experimental physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. His scientific work is among the most frequently cited in the field of quantum physics and has helped to open a new interdisciplinary research field at the interface of atomic physics, quantum optics, quantum information science and solid state physics. For his research, he has received numerous international awards, including the Körber European Science Prize, the Harvey Prize, the Zeiss Research Award, the Stern Gerlach Medal of the German Physical Society and was named Clarivate Citation Laureate for his work on quantum simulations.

Paola Cappellaro is the Ford Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a professor in the department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and in the department of Physics, where she leads the Quantum Engineering Group. She received a Ph.D from MIT followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University (ITAMP). The goals of Cappellaro’s research are to design and control quantum devices for quantum simulations, computation, and quantum sensing. With collaborators, she pioneered quantum magnetic sensing using electronic spin defects in diamond (the Nitrogen-Vacancy center). Prof. Cappellaro’s work has been recently recognized by the American Physical Society Fellowship

Dr. Yonatan Cohen - Quantum Machines - Entrepreneur; co-founder and ex-managing director of Weizmann Institute’s entrepreneurship program; completed his MSc and PhD in Prof. Moty Heiblum’s lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel working on quantum electronics, superconducting-semiconducting devices, and microfabrication; published works in peer-reviewed journals; completed BSc in physics and math at the University of Washington; received the Ruth and Prof. Abraham (Edek) Blaugrund Prize for academic excellence (2018), awarded yearly to students from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Currently CTO of one of the leading companies working in quantum control.

Reinhold Egger has been a full professor of theoretical physics at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf since 2001. He has worked in many different areas of condensed matter physics, including nonequilibrium quantum transport, topological quantum matter, superconductivity and low-dimensional quantum field theory. He is part of the board of EPJB since 2011 and he is recipient of the Gerhard-Hess-Preis of the DFG and of the Physics Prize of the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.

Dr. Pol Forn-Díaz leads the Quantum Computing Technology group at IFAE in Barcelona since 2019, using superconducting qubits for quantum annealing and quantum sensing applications. Dr. Forn-Díaz is a co-founder of Qilimanjaro, developing superconducting analog quantum computers. With nearly 20 years in the field, Dr. Forn-Díaz has held research positions at TU Delft (PhD), with postdoctoral researcher experience at MIT, Caltech and IQC, and is recognized as a leader in developing these circuits for applications in multiple areas of quantum science and technology.

Katharina Franke studied physics at the university of Kiel and PennState. She carried out her PhD at Freie Universität (FU) Berlin. After postdoctoral stays in Lausanne and Berlin, she first became a junior professor and then full professor at FU Berlin. Her group investigates electronic and magnetic properties of single atoms, molecules and nanostructures at surfaces by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy with a main focus on the interplay of magnetic adsorbates with superconducting substrates.

Marcel Franz is a Professor of Physics at The University of British Columbia and the Deputy Scientific Director at Blusson Quantum Matter Institute. He obtained his PhD at The University of Rochester in 1994 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow and McMaster and Johns Hopkins universities before joining the faculty of The University of British Columbia in 2000. An expert in theories of topological quantum matter, unconventional superconductivity and strongly correlated electron systems he made a number of significant advances in these fields, including the recent prediction of high-temperature topological superconductivity in twisted bilayers of cuprate superconductors.

Florian Froning is a Lead Application Scientist specializing in quantum technologies at Zurich Instruments. In his PhD work, he investigated quantum dots in semiconductor nanowires as hosts for spin qubits. Florian now applies expertise to advance quantum computing from the classical side. At Zurich Instruments, he works with users on solutions to enable and advance their research in quantum technologies. This role is particularly rewarding for him, as it offers the opportunity to work closely with scientists, explore innovative ideas, and contribute to the advancement of cutting-edge technologies.

Nathan Goldman's research spans a wide range of topics within quantum many-body physics, with a particular emphasis on topological states of matter and their implementation in ultracold atomic systems and photonic platforms. In recent years, his studies have been notably directed toward the exploration of quantum geometry and artificial gauge fields within synthetic quantum matter, as well as periodically driven quantum systems.

M. Zahid Hasan is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2002 and, since that time, has been a major researcher in the field of Topological Quantum Matter. He has written over 280 peer-reviewed journal articles and is the most cited experimenter in the field. His funded research areas include search and discovery of novel phases of matter, emergent new particles, novel quantum effects, exotic superconductivity, quantum magnetism, spin liquids, Weyl magnets and superconductors, chiral materials, topological insulators, Higgs phenomena, kagome magnets and superconductors, anyon superconductivity, fractionalization and Kitaev materials, among others. He has worked at both Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the 2020 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for groundbreaking discoveries in topological insulators, topological magnets and Weyl conductors. He is the recipient of American Competitiveness & Innovation Fellowship “for leadership in the field of physics” by the U.S. National Science Foundation and has been listed in the “World's Most Influential Scientific Minds List” since 2014 onward. He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is the principal investigator of the Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy at Princeton University.

Benjamin Huard graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris in 2003 and did his PhD studies in the Quantronics group at CEA Saclay (France) with Hugues Pothier. There, he performed experiments aiming at investigating the behavior of electrons in mesoscopic metallic and superconducting conductors. In 2006, he joined the Goldhaber-Gordon group at Stanford University (USA) as a post-doc fellow, and observed the Klein tunneling of electrons in graphene for the first time. In 2008, as a CNRS researcher, he cofounded the Quantum Electronics group at Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, France) with Michel Devoret. Since then, he worked on superconducting circuits in which he worked on quantum measurement and feedback, thermodynamics of quantum information, microwave quantum optics. He is now a professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon where he moved in 2017 and leads the Quantum Circuit Group together with Audrey Bienfait. He is a scientific adviser of the Alice and Bob company since 2021, scientific adviser of CNRS Physics since 2024, deputy member of section 28 Conseil National des Universités since 2024, and member of the editorial board of PRX since 2024

Pau’s experience with cryogenics goes back to his master’s at the EPFL working on scanning hall probe microscopy at milli-Kelvin temperatures. He then moved to Munich where he completed his PhD on the investigation of new magnetic phases under high pressure using diamond anvil cells at low temperatures. Pau’s technical expertise is complemented by language skills in Spanish, Catalan, English, French and German. He joined kiutra in 2022 as a Sales Engineer and provides advice and technical support to our customers.

Ivan Kassal is a Professor of Chemical Physics and ARC Future Fellow in the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney. He graduated from Stanford University and completed his PhD at Harvard University in 2010. He is a theorist working at the intersection of quantum science, chemistry, biophysics, and materials science. He pioneered some of the first applications of quantum computers to chemistry, showing they could dramatically accelerate difficult chemical calculations. He is a recipient of DECRA, Westpac, and Future fellowships, of the Australian Academy of Science Le Fèvre Medal for “outstanding basic research in chemistry” and of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute's Physical Chemistry Lectureship for “outstanding early- and mid-career physical chemists”.

Dynamic Senior Sales Engineer with a Ph.D. in Physics and a proven track record in driving revenue growth, fostering team development, and excelling in technical discussions. Passionate about advancing scientific innovation, particularly in quantum computing and cryogenics. Skilled in bridging the gap between complex technical concepts and practical business applications.
n my role as a Senior Sales Engineer at Bluefors Cryogenics since 2018, I've undertaken a variety of responsibilities beyond the typical sales engineer duties. Alongside my core duties, I've taken on recruitment efforts for sales engineers and coordinators, providing training and leadership to our team while fostering its growth. I've had the privilege of supervising and advising fellow sales professionals, contributing to Bluefors' impressive revenue growth from 60 million to 160 million euros. My involvement extends to various process developments, including lead processes and demand planning, as well as cross-departmental collaborations with R&D and product management. Additionally, I've played an active role in product launches and the ISO9001 certification process.
As a Sales Engineer at Bluefors, I specialized in providing solutions in the field of cryogenics, supporting clients in academia, startups, and companies. My role involved managing the lead-to-order process, cultivating and maintaining customer relationships, and engaging in technical discussions to tailor solutions to their specific requirements. Through these interactions, I gained a deep understanding of various research fields, particularly in quantum technology and quantum computing. Additionally, I represented Bluefors at conferences and in webinars, further expanding our network and visibility within the scientific community. Overall, I contributed to driving business growth and fostering partnerships that aligned with Bluefors' mission in advancing scientific innovation.
The subject of my thesis was non-linearities in nanomechanical systems (NEMS). NEMS have many applications such as accelerometers in modern cars or mass sensing. I analyzed and solved complex problems which require a strong knowledge in physics, mathematics and some skills in programing. I worked with experimentalists and gave suggestions for further investigations in their setup. I wrote articles in scientific journals and made presentation in conferences to show my findings to the scientific community.

Andrew King is a Senior Distinguished Scientist at D-Wave Systems, which he joined in 2013. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science at McGill University and was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University and Simon Fraser University. With a background in graph theory and discrete algorithms, he is an expert on quantum annealing, benchmarking, and simulation of quantum condensed matter. His most recent work concerns programmable quantum dynamics and their relevance to optimization and simulation tasks.

Romain Maurand is a research director at CEA Grenoble, France. He received a MSc and PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from Grenoble Alpes University (2011). During his postdoctoral research at the University of Basel in the group of prof. C. Schönenberger (2011-2013), he focused his experimental work on electron optics in ballistic graphene. He then moved to CEA Grenoble, France, first as a postdoc in the group of Dr. S. De Franceschi and since 2017 as a permanent researcher. There, he achieved the first spin qubit based on CMOS technology and pioneered spin qubit based on hole spin in silicon. His current research focuses on hybrid circuit quantum electrodynamics with hole spin qubit but also quantum devices based on germanium heterostructures.

Morais Smith is a theoretical physicist working on strongly interacting systems at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. In collaboration with experimental colleagues, her group has pioneered the realization of quantum fractals in electronic quantum simulators. Morais Smith has published more than 170 papers and was invited to give about 400 talks. Among others, she was the recipient of the Dresselhaus Prize in 2016 and of the Emmy Noether distinction of the European Physical Society in 2019 “for her outstanding contributions to the theory of condensed matter systems and ultracold atoms to unveil novel quantum states of matter”. In 2020, she was selected by the German Physical Society as one of the 175 most inspiring scientists in the world.

Yasu Nakamura started his research career at NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories in 1992, where he demonstrated the first coherent manipulation of a superconducting qubit in 1999 and met quantum information science. He spent a year as a Visiting Researcher at TU Delft from 2001 to 2002. Since 2012, he has been a Professor at The University of Tokyo. He has also been leading his research team at RIKEN since 2014. He is currently the Director of the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing and the Project Leader of the MEXT Q-LEAP Flagship project on Superconducting Quantum Computing.

His area of expertise is the modeling of the structural and electronic properties of materials and nanostructures, from ab initio methods (density functional theory, GW, Bethe-Salpeter) to semi-empirical approaches such as tight-binding and the effective mass.

He received a PhD degree on the modeling of the electronic properties of nanostructures at IEMN, Lille, France (1998-2001), then worked on density functional theory as a postdoc in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (2001-2003). He joined the laboratory of atomistic simulation (L_Sim) of the Institute for Nanosciences and Cryogenics (INAC) of the CEA Grenoble in 2003.

I am the Scientific Director (CSO) and Cofounder of Multiverse Computing, as well as Ikerbasque research professor at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) in San Sebastián, Spain. After obtaining my degree and PhD in Physics at the University of Barcelona in 2006, I worked as a research fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia, and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany, as well as a junior professor at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany. I was also visiting professor at the Universitè Paul Sabatier – CNRS, France, and at the DIPC. My research has been recognized by several awards, including a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship, and the Early Career Prize (2014) by the European Physical Society. I have written more than 80 scientific articles about quantum research cited around 5500 times, and I am also honorary member of the steering board of the journal Quantum, member of the ‘Quantum for Quants’ (Q4Q) commission of the Quantum World Association, partner at Entanglement Partners, and president of the Specialized Group on Quantum Information at the Spanish Royal Society of Physics.

Soo-hyon is currently working at Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) of Institute for Basic Science in Republic of Korea. He got his PhD in Solid State Physics from Seoul National University (SNU) in 2006. He had worked as postdocs at SNU and Max-Planck-Institute of Microstructure Physics. His major has been studies on surface nanostructures using a UHV low temperature STM, in particular, spin-polarized STM of spin-resolved electronic structures in magnetic nanostructures. He joined QNS from Oct 2016 and is leading the team “Atomic Scale Qubit Platforms on Surface” using a low-temperature STM equipped with electron spin resonance.

Gloria Platero is Research Professor at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid, at the CSIC (Spanish Research Council), which is located at the excellence Campus CSIC-UAM (Autonomous University of Madrid).
She leads the group at ICMM: "New Platforms and Nanodevices for Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computation" https://wp.icmm.csic.es/npqsic/ and belongs to the University Institute Gregorio Millán on Nanoscience (Carlos III University of Madrid) and to the Quantum Technologies Platform of the CSIC.
She has given over hundred invited, keynote or plenary talks in international conferences and she has been invited to give seminars and make stays in many international research centers.
She has been Mercator Fellow at the University of Regensburg.
Gloria has supervised many PhD students, most of them are working successfully in Academia.  
She is Fellow or the APS (Quantum Information Division), Chair of the C8 IUPAP Commission on Semiconductor Physics, and Vice-president of the IUPAP.  
Her research belongs to the field of Quantum Nanotechnologies. She investigates the theory of spin qubits in quantum dot arrays, their manipulation and the transfer of quantum information in these systems for quantum computation purposes. Time periodic driven systems, Floquet engineering, is one of her main topics of research.
She investigates as well the interplay between topology and driving and the role of topological edge states for the transfer of quantum information in different platforms.

Raquel was born in Lisbon Portugal, where she graduated from Instituto Superior Tecnico in 2009. After that she went to do a Masters in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London, and completed her PhD in 2015 at Max Planck Institute of Solid State Physics in Stuttgart. Raquel did a postdoc in Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and is since 2022 an Assistant Professor of Physics at Columbia University. Her group investigates quantum phenomena of condensed matter systems focusing on the geometry and topology of electronic band structures. She received the NSF career award in 2024 and the Sloan Research Fellowship in 2025.

Mikael Rechtsman is a Professor of Physics at the Pennsylvania State University in the US, and currently the visiting QuantAlps professor of physics at the Néel Institute of the CNRS in Grenoble, France. His research group carries out both experimental and theoretical research in nonlinear, quantum and topological photonics. He is perhaps best known for the first demonstration of a topological insulator for light.

Martin Ringbauer received his PhD in experimental quantum optics from the University of Queensland in 2026. He is now an assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck with a focus on new approaches to quantum computing and simulation, particularly using high-dimensional encodings in trapped ions. In 2022 he received an ERC Starting Grant for his work on qudit-based quantum computing. His research interests include fundamental questions in quantum physics, as well as quantum computing, quantum error correction, and quantum simulation.

Anurag is the Chief Product Officer at Qruise. He is an experienced engineer and entrepreneur with a background in cold atoms and superconducting qubits based quantum technologies. At Qruise, he leads a team of physicists and software engineers developing tools to automate and accelerate the development of quantum devices through faster & better calibration and characterisation. Prior to joining Qruise, he was at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore and the Jülich Research Centre in Germany.

Giordano Scappucci earned his MSc in Physics from Università La Sapienza in Rome in 2000, followed by a PhD in Physics from Università Roma TRE in 2004. He began his research career at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he contributed to the Centre for Quantum Computing Technology. In 2015, he became a Group Leader at QuTech, TU Delft, in the Netherlands, where he has played a pivotal role in advancing the field of quantum computing with semiconductor spin qubits. The silicon-germanium quantum materials developed by Giordano’s team enabled landmark experiments in the field of quantum information and are used by researchers globally for the development of quantum technologies.

Since 2021, Niels B. M. Schröter has been leading an independent Max Planck Research Group at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle, Germany. He earned his DPhil in Physics from the University of Oxford in 2018, followed by postdoctoral research at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. He is the recipient of the 2021 IBM Condensed Matter Physics Award and the 2025 IUPAP C10 Early Career Scientist Award for his discovery of chiral topological semimetals and holds an ERC Starting Grant to further explore this novel material class. His research spans the spectroscopy and synthesis of quantum materials, with a particular focus on structurally chiral materials that exhibit unique chiral electronic, spin, and orbital textures, offering potential applications in next-generation technologies.

Graduated from École Polytechnique and Doctor in Quantum Physics from Université Paris 6, Pascale Senellart joined the CNRS in 2001. She was appointed senior researcher in 2011 and associate professor at Polytechnique in 2014. Her research activity is at the interface between nanosciences, semiconductor physics and quantum optics. She received the CNRS Silver Medal in 2014, the Prix Mergier-Bourdeix in 2021, the Prix Jean Ricard in 2023 and was elected member of the French Academy of Science in 2022 and of the French academy of technologies in 2024. She is co-founder and scientific advisor of the C2N spin-off Quandela who develops solutions for optical quantum computing.

Vladimir M. Shalaev, Scientific Director for Nanophotonics at Birck Nanotechnology Center and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, specializes in nanophotonics, plasmonics, optical metamaterials and quantum photonics. Prof. Shalaev has received several awards for his research, including the APS Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids, the Optica (formerly, Optical Society of America) Max Born Award for his pioneering contributions to the field of optical metamaterials, the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, Rolf Landauer medal of the ETOPIM (Electrical, Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media) International Association, the UNESCO Medal for the development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies, and the OSA and SPIE Goodman Book Writing Award. Prof. Shalaev is recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in physics by the Web of Science Group for 7 consecutive years, in 2017-2023. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, APS, SPIE, MRS and Optica.

Enrique Solano lives in Berlin, Germany, where he develops entrepreneurial activities as Chief Visionary Officer at Kipu Quantum, a startup designing quantum computing solutions to bring quantum advantage to the present for industry use cases. As a physicist, he has worked in Peru, France, Brazil, Germany, China, and Spain, occupying leading positions in academic institutions. He constantly explores interdisciplinary ideas and initiatives merging arts, science, technology, and entrepreneurship. Apart from his pioneering works in quantum computing and quantum technologies, he develops novel interdisciplinary fields like quantum arts, neuromorphic quantum computing, quantum brain networks, and the quantum metaverse.

Daniel Stilck Franca is a researcher in quantum computation and information. He did his PhD at the mathematics institute of TU Munich in 2018. After that, he did a postdoc in the University of Copenhagen in the QMATH group, before joining Inria and ENS Lyon in 2022 as a permanent researcher. After two years in France, he is now back in Copenhagen, working as an associate professor at the Quantum for Life Center.

Luca Tagliacozzo is a Tenured Scientist at the Institute of Fundamental Physics of CSIC in Madrid. There he works on the quantum many body problem through the lenses of field theory and quantum information. In particular he uses and develops tensor networks to characterise many-body quantum systems at and out of equilibrium. He is well known for the formulation of the finite-entanglement scaling hypothesis, the identification of different regimes of causality in the spread of correlations in long-range quantum systems and his characterisation of lattice gauge theories with tensor networks and quantum simulators. Recently he has focused on identifying novel measures of quantum complexity including generalized temporal entropies relevant to the simulation of the out-of-equilibrium dynamics with tensor networks.

Jelena is a physicist and an expert in quantum, nanotechnology, and material science. She graduated from Florida State University in the USA and held a postdoctoral position at the University of Basel, Switzerland before joining Zurich Instruments as an Applications Manager for nanotechnology and magnetism. She has collaborated closely with top universities worldwide as a Product Manager for lock-in amplifiers and developed businesses for quantum systems control electronics in the UK and EMEA region. She is passionate about quantum technologies and helping physicists and engineers develop good measurement practice

Lieven Vandersypen (Leuven, Belgium, 1972) studied Mechanical Engineering at the KU Leuven and received a MSc and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (2001). He then moved to TU Delft, the Netherlands, first as a postdoc and since 2006 as Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor. He leads a group that pioneered quantum computing and simulation based on electron spins in semiconductor quantum dots. Prof. Vandersypen received Starting, Synergy and Advanced grants of the European Research Council, is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW), and was a member of the Young Academy of the KNAW. He was selected as an Outstanding Referee of the APS, received the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize for Semiconductor Physics, the Nicholas Kurti European Science Prize, and the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific award in the Netherlands.

Menno Veldhorst is a group leader at QuTech, Delft University of Technology. He received his PhD cum laude at the University of Twente. During his postdoctoral research at the University of New South Wales in the group of prof. A. Dzurak, he demonstrated for the first time single and two-qubit logic in silicon, mentioned as one of the top ten breakthroughs in physics in 2015 by Physics World. His group at QuTech introduced planar germanium qubits, demonstrated universal logic with silicon above one Kelvin, realized four-qubit logic with quantum dots, and experimentally realized the Loss DiVincenzo proposal of hopping spin qubits. For his contributions to silicon and germanium quantum technology he received the Nicholas Kurti Science Prize and he is listed as a visionary in the MIT Technology Review list 35 innovators under 35.

Xavier Waintal graduated from Polytechnique school, Paris area, in 1995, did a master of theoretical physics at Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, and moved on to the group of J-L Pichard in Saclay for his PhD (1999). He spent two years as a postdoc in P. Brouwer's group in Cornell University, USA, and was hired as a permanent researcher in CEA Saclay in 2002. In 2009, X. Waintal moved to INAC, CEA Grenoble where he have remained since and works as Research Director at CEA Grenoble, IRIG Pheliqs (France).

Dr. Joel Î-j. Wang is a research scientist in the Engineering Quantum Systems (EQuS) group at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). Trained as an experimental condensed matter physicist, his expertise spans mesoscopic physics, nanofabrication, 2D materials, hybrid superconducting circuits, and engineered quantum systems.
Joel’s research focuses on bridging superconducting quantum technology and 2D quantum materials to enable scalable quantum systems and explore novel physics. His work encompasses:
• Advancing Superconducting Quantum Technologies: Developing compact, high-coherence qubits and scalable architectures integrating 2D materials.
• Exploring Novel Quantum Materials: Investigating unconventional superconductivity and correlated electron states in 2D materials using circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) platforms.

Eva Weig is a Full Professor at the School of Computation, Information and Technology of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany. She holds the Chair of Nano and Quantum Sensors and is a Director of the TUM Zentrum für Quantum Engineering (ZQE). Before joining TUM in 2020, she spent eight years as a Full Professor at the Department of Physics at the University of Konstanz in Germany. Eva got a PhD in Physics from Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, Germany, in 2004, where she also worked as a Junior Research Group Leader following her postdoc at the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB).