PhD students

Francesco Hoch
3rd year PhD student
francesco.hoch[at]uniroma1.it
Currently working on integrated photonic chip, focusing on new automatic characterization and new control method. He graduated in October 2019 at the Università of Pisa.

Beatrice Polacchi
3rd year PhD student
polacchi.1713287@studenti.uniroma1.it
She graduated in October 2020 at Sapienza Università di Roma under the supervision of prof. Fabio Sciarrino, with a thesis entitled “Experimental robust self-testing of the state generated by a quantum network”. Currently working on quantum causality for the design and experimental implementation of device-independent protocols, to investigate the presence of non-local correlations within different quantum network topologies.

Danilo Zia
3rd year PhD student
zia.1699281[at]studenti.uniroma1.it
Currently investigating the applications of quantum walk dynamics in the orbital angular momentum degree of freedom of the photons using machine learning techniques. He graduated in October 2020 at Sapienza Università di Roma.

Giovanni Rodari
2nd year PhD student
giovanni.rodari[at]uniroma1.it
Currently investigating topics related to the field of Quantum Information Theory, with particular focus on causality and nonlocality, towards possible optical based implementations of quantum networks. He graduated in October 2021 at Sapienza Università di Roma, under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Sciarrino.

Denis Stanev
2nd year PhD student
denis.stanev[at]gssi.it
Currently investigating topics related to the field of Quantum Machine Learning, with a focus on optical based implementations of quantum neural networks. He graduated in October 2021 at Sapienza Università di Roma under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Sciarrino, with a thesis entitled “Quantum Optical Neural Networks”.

Paolo Barigelli
1st year PhD student
paolo.barigelli[at]uniroma1.it
Graduated in April 2022 at Università degli Studi di Padova under the supervision of prof. Giuseppe Vallone, with a thesis entitled ‘Realization of a Quantum Random Number Generator for Cryptographical application.’ Currently working on entanglement-based Quantum Key Distribution, exploiting a Quantum dot source for fiber and free space links.