Tommaso Calarco

Prof. Tommaso Calarco is Director of the Peter Grünberg Ins9tute for Quantum Control (PGI-8) at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Professor of Quantum Informa9on at the Ins9tute of Theore9cal Physics of the University of Cologne and the University of Bologna. He has pioneered the applica9on of quantum op9mal control methods to quantum computa9on and many-body quantum systems. Prof. Calarco earned his PhD at the University of Ferrara and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Peter Zoller at the University of Innsbruck. He was appointed Senior Researcher at the BEC Centre in Trento in 2004 and Professor of Physics at the University of Ulm in 2007, where he later became Director of the Ins9tute for Complex Quantum Systems and of the Centre for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology. He has also conducted research at the Na9onal Ins9tute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and at Harvard University. Prof. Calarco authored the Quantum Manifesto that ini9ated the European Commission’s Quantum Flagship, where he currently serves as Co-chair of the Quantum Community Network (QCN). He is Secretary of the European Commission expert group of Top-Level Specialists in Quantum Technologies, chaired by European Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen, and a co-founder of the European Quantum Industry Consor9um (QuIC).