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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).

Loïc has joined the Quantum Technologies team for a PhD, in partnership with ID Quantique. He received his Masters in Applied Physics from INSA Toulouse, and in Materials Science and Engineering from Seoul National University.

Mingsong has joined the Quantum Technologies team for a PhD. He received his Masters from Imperial College, where he worked with Michael Vanner on silica microresonators as quantum resources.