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 and Scientific Supervisor of its electron microscopy facilities. 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 Materials area at Joint Electron Microscopy Center at ALBA Synchrotron (JEMCA). He has been one of the founder members of 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 February 2024, he co-authored more than 500 publications with 32.700+ citations and h-index: 102 (GoS) (by July 2024).

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.

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, Garching and professor for experimental physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich. He is also one of the spokespersons of the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST). Immanuel Bloch obtained his PhD in physics in 2000 from LMU. From 2003-2009 he was full professor at the University of Mainz. In 2009 he returned to Munich, where his research focus lies on the investigation of quantum many-body systems, quantum simulations, quantum information processing and quantum optics. Immanuel Bloch received several prizes for his work, among them the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz prize of the German Science Foundation (DFG), the German National Merit Medal in 2005, the international commission of optics prize, the Senior Prize for Fundamental Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics of the European Physical Society, the Körber European Science Prize, the Senior BEC Award and the Harvey Prize of the Technion. Recently he received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art in 2021, the highest distinction in Bavaria for outstanding contributions in these two disciplines and was named Clarivate Citation Laureate in 2022.

Paola Cappellaro is Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Research Lab for Electronics, where she leads the Quantum Engineering Group. She received her Ph.D in 2006 from MIT and she then joined Harvard University as a postdoctoral associate in the Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP), before going back to MIT as a faculty in 2009. Prof. Cappellaro is an expert in NMR, ESR, coherent control and quantum information science. She is a specialist in spin-based quantum information processing and precision measurements in the solid state. With collaborators, she developed the concept and first demonstrations of NV-diamond magnetometers. Cappellaro's major contributions have been in developing control techniques for nuclear and electronic spin qubits, including NV-diamond, inspired by NMR techniques and quantum information ideas. The goal is the realization of practical quantum nano-devices, such as sensors and simulators, more powerful than their classical counterparts, as well as the acquisition of a deeper knowledge of quantum systems and their environment. Her work has been recently recognized by the Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and a Merkator 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 the Insitute for High Energy Physics (IFAE) in Barcelona. In his group, he carries out research in the areas of quantum computing and quantum sensing using superconducting quantum circuits, being the leader of the Spanish efforts in experimental quantum computation. He has coordinated two European consortia, FET Open AVaQus and Quantera SiUCs projects, developing circuits for quantum computing applications. Dr. Forn-Díaz is also co-founder and current CTO of the quantum startup Qilimanjaro, which is building analog superconducting quantum processors.

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.

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.

Heinrich is a world-leading researcher in the field of quantum-coherent nanoscience with a focus on quantum spins on surfaces. He pioneered spin excitation and single-atom spin resonance spectroscopy with scanning tunneling microscopes. This has culminated in the demonstration of a qubit platform made of atomic spins on a surface (Science 2023) and quantum sensing with atomic-scale spatial resolution (under review 2024). Heinrich became a distinguished professor of Ewha Womans University in Seoul from 2017, South Korea and started the Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in January 2017. QNS is operating several state-of-the-art STM and AFM systems and combines this atomic-scale approach with ensemble-averaging techniques such as x-ray spectroscopy and ensemble ESR with a surface-science focus

Bilal is a physicist and spends effort in bringing quantum computers to reality. As the lead application scientist of Qblox, he is specifically keen on understanding the requirements of qubit control and readout, and on matching them with Qblox's solutions. He started his studies at Bogazici university, Turkey and completed his PhD in experimental solid state physics at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He patented two applications in nanomagnetism and has experience in nanofabrication, quantum transport in 2D materials and cryogenic methods. After his PhD, he started his professional career in the scientific instruments industry to find solutions to challenging problems of experimental physics

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 has also unravelled ways that photosynthetic organisms use quantum effects to improve their light harvesting, and is using those lessons to better understand next-generation materials, especially organic solar cells. 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”.

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.

Peter Krogstrup is a Professor at UPCH and has a Starting Grant from The European Research Council (ERC). Peter Krogstrup is also a Principal Researcher for the Project Q Experimental Physics Initiative which is a collaboration project between the University of Copenhagen and Microsoft. Furthermore, Peter Krogstrup is engaged by Microsoft to perform quantum research.

Andreas Messner is an Application Scientist specializing in quantum technologies at Zurich Instruments. With a background in electrical engineering, and in his Ph.D. work, he investigated high-speed integrated electro-optics. Andreas now applies expertise to advance quantum computing control systems. At Zurich Instruments, he leads collaboration projects aimed at developing future products and applications. This role is particularly rewarding for him, as it offers the opportunity to work closely with partners, explore innovative ideas, and contribute to the advancement of cutting-edge technologies.

C. Morais Smith is a worldwide recognised researcher working on the theory of strongly-correlated systems. She was awarded the Winter 2019 Emmy Noether Distinction of the European Physical Society, “for her outstanding contributions to the theory of condensed matter systems and ultracold atoms to unveil novel quantum states of matter" and the 2016 Dresselhaus Prize CUI Hamburg University, Senior scientist, “for her outstanding contribution to the understanding of topological phases in two-dimensional atomic and electronic systems”. Her research interests range from condensed-matter to cold-atom systems. In collaboration with experimental colleagues, her group has pioneered the realization of quantum fractals and higher-order topological states in electronic quantum simulators. Her group has also set the basis for a thermodynamic description of topological insulators and superconductors and actively contributed to the development of a projected quantum electrodynamics (CQED and Pseudo QED) formulation to investigate topological phases driven by interactions. The research done in her group spans a large variety of techniques, from tight-binding models, muffin-tin, to quantum field theory, renormalization group, Schwinger-Dyson, and Chern-Simons theory.

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.

She is author of around two hundred JCR publications. She was invited by the editor to write a review on ac driven transport in nanostructures. She has leaded several national and international projects, given more than ninety invited talks in conferences and invited to give seminars in several research institutions. She was invited for research stays in different international reference research centers. She has participated in the scientific, advisory or steering committee of more than thirty conferences or workshops and was chairwoman of the ICSNN 2018, a satellite conference of the ICPS (International Conference of Semiconductor Physics). She has advised fourteen PhD students, ten of them follow Academia, she is involved in the Master and PhD programs of the UCM and the UAM Universities. She was awarded with a Mercator Fellow position (CRC 1277) at the University of Regensburg (2017/2021). She got a Distinction by the CSIC for the scientific merits 2017/2018. She has been elected Secretary of the C8 Commission (Semiconductors) of the IUPAP.

Raquel Queiroz is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Columbia University and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Computation Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute in New York City. She received her Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2015 and was a postdoctoral Koshland fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel from 2016 until 2021. In 2022, she established her group at Columbia University, where she studies topological and geometric properties of solids, primarily how quantum geometry affects electronic response, collective phenomena and behavior in the presence of disorder. Her work is deeply motivated by collaborations with experimental groups. She received the NSF Career Award in 2024.

Mikael Rechtsman is a Professor of Physics at the Pennsylvania State University in the United States. His group studies nonlinear and quantum optical phenomena in complex geometries such as lattices, disordered systems, and quasicrystals. As a postdoc in Moti Segev's group, he co-discovered the first topological insulator for light, helping to launch the field of topological photonics. Since then, his group at Penn State has been responsible for the demonstration of optical Weyl points, higher-order topological insulators, edge and bulk solitons in photonic topological insulators, among other phenomena. He is the recipient of the Sloan, Packard and Kaufman fellowships, the ONR young investigator prize, the ICO Prize of the International Commission for Optics, and is a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher.

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.

Pedram Roushan received his PhD in 2011 from Princeton University, performing the first scanning tunneling microscopy on the surface of topological insulators. After three years of post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2014 he joined the Google quantum hardware lab aiming on making a quantum computer. With the Google team in 2019, they performed the first computation on a quantum processor beyond the capability of a supercomputer. The current focus of his research is on studying non-equilibrium phenomena with quantum processors.

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 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.

Pascale Senellart obtained her PhD from University Paris 6 in 2001 for her studies on microcavity polaritons. After two short postdoctoral positions in industrial laboratories, she joined the CNRS at end of 2002 at the Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures where she started a research line on cavity quantum electrodynamics with semiconductor quantum dots. In 2008, she invented a technology to fully control the coupling between a quantum dot to a microcavity, a technique that now allows her team to address many interesting challenges in the field of solid-state quantum optics. She has co-authored 120 papers in refereed journals and given more than 90 invited talks in international conferences and workshops. She was awarded of an ERC starting grant in 2011 and of the iXcore foundation in 2012. She was laureate of the CNRS silver medal in 2014, elected OSA Fellow in 2018.

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.

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.

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 carried out most of his PhD research at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. During these years, his scientific interests and fascination evolved from mechatronics to micro-electromechanical systems to quantum mechanics and quantum information. As a PhD student, he used the spins of atomic nuclei in a molecule as quantum bits and implemented various quantum algorithms for the first time. Most famously, he demonstrated Shor’s quantum algorithm for finding the prime factors of the number fifteen (15=3×5).

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).

Prof. Weig studied physics at LMU Munich and at the University of Oxford. After her doctorate at LMU, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and a junior research group leader at LMU. In 2013, she was appointed a Full Professor at the University of Konstanz. In 2020, Prof. Weig joined TUM as a Full Professor, leading the Chair of Nano & Quantum Sensors. Since 2022 she is a Director of the TUM Center for QuantumEngineering (ZQE).