The CERN QTI Advisory Board is composed of prominent quantum technology experts from the CERN Member States nominated by the CERN Council representatives. Members of the Advisory Board will work together with the CERN QTI management team to guide the activities and create as many synergies as possible with national and international initiatives related to quantum technologies.
The list of the appointed members of the Advisory Board can be found below:
Country |
Representative |
Affiliation |
Austria | Thorsten Schumm | Vienna University of Technology |
Belgium | Nicolas Cerf | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
Bulgaria | Nikolay Vitanov | St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia (Faculty of Physics) |
Czech Republic | Jiri Kvita | Palacky University |
Denmark | Nikolaj Zinner | Aarhus University (Department of Physics and Astronomy) |
Finland | Sabrina Maniscalco | University of Helsinki |
France | Philippe Chomaz | CEA (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives) |
Germany | Kerstin Borras | DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron). Co-chair of the Advisory Board |
Greece | Costas Fountas | University of Ioannina, CERN |
Hungary | Gergely Barnafoldi | Wigner Research Centre for Physics |
Israel | Tal David | Israel National Quantum Initiative |
Italy | Valter Bonvicini | INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) |
The Netherlands | Kareljan Schoutens | University of Amsterdam, QuSoft |
Norway | Arne Brataas | Director of the Center of Excellence QuSpin, NTNU (Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences) |
Poland | Wojciech Wiślicki | NCBJ (Complex System Department), Świerk Computer Centre, LHCb – CERN |
Portugal | Yasser Omar |
Instituto Superior Técnico and PQI – Portuguese Quantum Institute. |
Romania | George-Pantelimon Popescu | University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (Computer Science and Engineering Department, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers) |
Serbia | Predrag Milenovic | University of Belgrade (Faculty of Physics), CMS – CERN |
Slovakia | Vladimir Buzek | Research Center for Quantum Information |
Spain | Elias Combarro | University of Oviedo |
Sweden | Göran Wendin | Chalmers Research, Chalmers University of Technology |
Switzerland | Klaus Ensslin | ETH Zürich |
The United Kingdom | Kai Bongs | University of Birmingham |