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Fadri has joined the Quantum Technologies team for postdoctoral research on Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors. He graduated under Prof. Hugo Zbinden with his work on Quantum Key Distribution. Then he went to Vigo in Spain to contribute to the founding of a lab at the Vigo Quantum Communication Center as a postdoctoral researcher. There guided three PhD students working on Quantum Random Number Generators and Quantum Key Distribution.

Viros Sriskaran joined the Quantum Technologies team to work on ASICs for superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors. He holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Micro- and Nanotechnologies for Integrated Systems, a joint program offered by three universities: Politecnico di Torino, Grenoble INP, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He completed his PhD at EPFL in Lausanne. He worked for eight years at CERN on the design and implementation of analog circuits for the Medipix and…

Eva has joined the Quantum Technology team for a PhD, in partnership with RhySearch. She received her Master’s in Nanotechnology from the Leibniz University Hanover and previously worked in the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD on optical micro platforms and Quantum Key Distribution. She then moved to the startup Diatope, where she developed NV Centers in diamond for quantum applications such as quantum sensors and quantum computers.

Florian has joined the Quantum Technologies team for a PhD working on Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors. Previously he worked at the startup company XRnanotech as an Operations Manager. He then went on to earn his Masters degree in Physics at Stockholm University in Sweden, during which he worked on compact cold atom sources as part of the Ion Trap Quantum Computation group at the Paul-Scherrer Institute.

The Geneva Quantum Network has officially launched! This is the first Geneva-based quantum network infrastructure, brought together by a consortium comprised of the University of Geneva (UNIGE), CERN, HEPIA, ID Quantique, Rolex, and the Cantonal Office for Information Systems and Digital Technology (OCSIN).

Manish has joined the Quantum Technologies team for a PhD working on Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors. He earned his Masters in Solid State Physics from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, and has previously worked at the Indian Space Research Organization

“The SECOQC quantum key distribution network in Vienna”, co-authored by our group leaders Rob Thew and Hugo Zbinden, and "The quantum technologies roadmap: a European community view", co-authored by Rob Thew, have both been voted in IOP’s ten outstanding quantum articles published in the New Journal of Physics (NJP) since its inception! Congratulations Rob and Hugo!

Javier has joined the Quantum Technologies team for a PhD, in partnership with ID Quantique. He received his Masters in Telecom Engineering from the University of Vigo, where he worked with Marcos Curty on quantum key distribution.

Shashank has joined the Quantum Technologies team for a PhD working on Quantum Key Distribution. He received his Masters in Optical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, and has previously worked at the Indian Space Research Organization.

Our new results from heralded distribution of entanglement are out now in Optica Quantum! In this work we experimentally demonstrated a scheme for distributing polarization-entangled photons for future quantum networks. To do this, we started with four independent single photons and created two entangled pairs from these. We then measured one photon from each pair in such a way that we entangle the two remaining photons (thus "swapping" the entanglement between the original pairs).