Prof. Fabio Sciarrino
Group Leader
fabio.sciarrino[at]uniroma1.it
Full Professor – Dipartimento di Fisica
Deputy Rector for International Competitive Research Strategies – Sapienza Università di Roma
Senior fellow and Deputy Director – Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati Sapienza (SSAS)
Dr Nicolò Spagnolo
Associate Professor
nicolo.spagnolo[at]uniroma1.it
Nicolò Spagnolo graduated in 2008 at the Sapienza Università di Roma. In 2012 he received his PhD with a thesis on the generation, manipulation, and characterization of multiphoton quantum optical states, with applications in fundamental tests of quantum mechanics and in quantum information protocols. His research activities have been focused on the experimental implementation of multiphoton quantum information and quantum simulations protocols with different photonic platforms. In particular, in the last few years he has carried out research on multiparameter estimation, and on implementation of Boson Sampling instances and their validation.
Dr Gonzalo Carvacho
Lecturer
gonzalo.carvacho[at]uniroma1.it
Gonzalo Carvacho graduated in 2014 at the University of Concepción. In 2017 he received his PhD in Sapienza Università di Roma with a thesis on “Multiphoton hybrid systems and their applications in quantum information and quantum communication”. After his PhD, he has been working as a post-doctoral researcher in the Quantum Information Lab. His research activities have been focused on foundational and practical implications of quantum causality with different photonic platforms.
Dr Valeria Cimini
Lecturer
valeria.cimini[at]uniroma1.it
Valeria Cimini received her Master degree in Physics in July 2016 at Sapienza Università di Roma. She did her PhD at the University of Roma Tre in the New Quantum Optics group under the supervision of Prof. Barbieri. After her PhD she joined the Quantum Information Lab with an Amaldi Research Center post-doctoral fellowship. She is currently working on Quantum Metrology projects and on the implementation of machine learning algorithms for the characterization and self-calibration of quantum photonic sensors with both single-photon and squeezed states.
Dr Taira Giordani
Lecturer
taira.giordani[at]uniroma1.it
Currently working on photonic devices for the implementation of boson sampling and its validation methods. She graduated in Nov 2016 at the Sapienza Università di Roma.
Dr Francesco Hoch
Post-doc
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.
Dr Alessia Suprano
Post-doc
alessia.suprano[at]uniroma1.it
Alessia Suprano graduated in October 2018 from Sapienza Università di Roma. She did her Ph.D. at Sapienza Università di Roma in the Quantum Lab under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Sciarrino and defended her Ph.D. thesis in May 2022. She currently works on quantum optics for the employment of high-dimensional photonics resources for quantum information protocols and nonlocality investigation.
Giuliana Pensa
Project manager
giuliana.pensa[at]uniroma1.it
Project manager of the team’s EU projects FET-OPEN PHOQUSING (2020-2024), ERC ADVANCED GRANT QU-BOSS (2020-2025) and FET-OPEN CANCER SCAN (2019-2024).
Previously, project manager of the EU project Marie Curie Initial Training Network PICQUE (2013-2017) and of the EU FET-ProActive project QUCHIP (2015-2018), both coordinated by the University of Rome La Sapienza, and of the EU FET project PHORBITECH, coordinated by the University of Naples Federico II.
PhD students
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
3rd 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
3rd 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
2nd 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.
Giorgio Minati
1st year PhD student
giorgio.minati[at]uniroma1.it
He graduated in October 2023 in Sapienza University of Rome under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Sciarrino, with a thesis entitled “Quantum Randomness through Causal Modeling”. Currently investigating the manipulation of orbital angular momentum in single photon states, and quantum metrology with squeezed states of light.
Eugenio Caruccio 
1st year PhD student
eugenio.caruccio[at]uniroma1.it
Graduated in june 2023 at Sapienza Università di Roma under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Sciarrino. Currently working on the implementation and characterization of a photonic hybrid platform, made up of a single photon source and a photonic integrated circuit.
Giorgio Milani
Technician
giorgio.milani[at]uniroma1.it
Technician responsible for the security measures of the Quantum Information Lab.
Undergraduate students
Daniel Carvalho de Salles
Stefano Corsetti
Tommaso Francalanci
Elena Negro
Stefano Savo
Francesco Sirovich
Enrico Urbani
Former members
Dr Iris Agresti
Iris Agresti graduated in November 2016 at Sapienza Università di Roma and, during her PhD program, which she finished in February 2020, she won a scholarship for a 3 months secondment, which she spent in the Quantum Information Theory group of prof. Antonio Acìn (ICFO, Barcelona). During her Post-Doc she worked on photonic technologies for quantum information processing tasks and quantum computation. In particular she worked on: quantum machine learning techniques for Boson Sampling validation and for the approximation of quantum state tomography; quantum causality for the design and experimental implementation of device-independent protocols, aimed to the study of quantum foundations as well as to more applicative tasks, as secure random numbers generation, and superposition of causal orders.
Dr Mariana R. Barros
Mariana R. Barros graduated in 2008 at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. In 2010 she received her master’s degree from the same University and, in 2015, she received her doctorate degree at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with an internship at the Université Paris Diderot -Sorbonne Paris Cité. She worked as a research assistant at National University of Singapore in 2010 and, after her Phd, she worked as a post-doctorate researcher at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2017 – 2018), at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (2018 – 2019) and at the Univeristy of Naples Federico II, seconded at the Univeristy of Rome La Sapienza (2019-2021). She has experience in Physics, focusing on Quantum Optics, acting on the following subjects: Quantum Information, Modular Variables, Quantum Computation, Parametric Down Conversion and Integrated Quantum Optics.
Dr Marco Bentivegna
Currently working as Senior Editor of Nature Commincations, he received his PhD in Sapienza Università di Roma with a thesis on Boson Sampling. His activity as post-doc in Sapienza primarly focused on the use of integrated optical circuits for investigation of quantum information protocols and quantum simulation.
Dr Mario Arnolfo Ciampini
Currently working at Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information in Vienna, he received his PhD in Sapienza. His activity as post-doc in Sapienza Università di Roma focused on developing quantum information and simulation protocols using path-polarization hyperentangled photons, focused in particular on quantum thermodynamics and cluster state manipulation and analysis.
Dr Alvaro Cuevas Seguel
Currently working as PostDoctoral Researcher at ICFO-institut de ciencies fotoniques, he received his PhD in Sapienza Università di Roma with a thesis on Polarization and frequency entanglement for experiments in bulk and integrated optic. His activities as Post-doc primarily focused on experimental observation of non-markovianity and its applications in quantum information protocols.
Dr Vincenzo D’Ambrosio
Currently working as Researcher in the University of Naples “Federico II”, he received his PhD in Sapienza Università di Roma with a thesis on Photonic high dimensional systems and their applications in fundamental quantum mechanics, quantum information and quantum communication. His activity as post-doc in Sapienza primarily focused on the orbital angular momentum of light and its applications in quantum information and communication.
Dr Chiara Esposito
Chiara Esposito graduated in May 2018 at the Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” and she discussed the PhD thesis in May 2022 at the University of Rome ”Sapienza”.
During her PhD, she worked on a test for genuine multi-photon indistinguishability for boson sampling applications and she realized quantum multiphoton interference in linear momentum of the light by exploiting liquid crystal devices.
Currently she works on quantum walk application in quantum state engineering and in realization of quantum channels.
Dr Fulvio Flamini
Currently working as PostDoc in the University of Innsbruck, he received his PhD in Sapienza Università di Roma with a thesis on Implementation of integrated photonic experiments towards scalable quantum technologies. His activity as post-doc in Sapienza focused on the development of photonic technologies for quantum simulation and quantum communication protocols.
Dr Andrea Geraldi
Andrea Geraldi graduated in October 2017 at Sapienza Università di Roma and he finished his PhD program in March 2021. Besides, he won a post-doc position in the Quantum Information Lab. During his PhD he spent four months in the Integrated Quantum optics group at University of Paderborn, headed by Christine Silberhorn. During his Post-Doc he studied particle propagation in a quantum walk scenario, with a particular focus on the disordered evolution, which was intimately linked to the description of the movement of energy excitation in the matter. He also studied how quantum correlation of two indistinguishable particles affect the evolution of the particles, with possible applications to quantum information tasks such as metrology. He also focused on the quantum state discrimination problem, which was a fundamental building block of quantum cryptography, by investigating novel techniques aimed at lowering the amount of resources needed to perform such a task.
Dr Ilaria Gianani
Currently working as research fellow on Quantum Optics and Metrology at University of Roma Tre, she received her DPhil from Oxford University. Her research as a post-doc in Sapienza focused mainly on quantum metrology and the study of structured light in dispersive media.
Dr Eleonora Nagali
Currently working as Policy Officer at EU Agency of the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, she received her PhD in Sapienza Università di Roma and her activities as post-doc primarily focused on the orbital angular momentum of light and its applications in quantum information and communication.
Dr Davide Poderini
Davide Poderini received his master’s degree in 2017 at the Sapienza Università di Roma. During his Ph.D. he worked mainly in the field of causal inference and causal violations in quantum systems, both from a fundamental and technological point of view. Currently his research activities are still focused on causality, and in particular in the experimental realization of photonic platforms for fundamental tests and for quantum communication protocols.
Dr Emanuele Polino
He graduated in November 2016 at the Sapienza Università di Roma and obtained the PhD in February 2020. Currently working on photonic technologies for quantum foundations studies and quantum information tasks. In particular he worked on: fundamental tests on wave-particle duality of photons, study of nonlocality in different quantum networks, quantum metrology protocols, generation, transmission and measurement of quantum states of light carrying Orbital Angular Momentum, and realization of entangled photons sources.
Dr Syed Adil Rab
Currently working in Quantum Modelling at Cogisen, he received his PhD in Sapienza Università di Roma as Marie Curie ITN fellow working on integrated photonic devices for quantum information and simulation experiments with use of quantum walks techniques, with parallel work in quantum sensing with superconducting single photon detectors.
Dr Linda Sansoni
Currently working as school professor in Italy. Her activity as post-doc primarily focused on integrated optical circuits, quantum foundations and quantum information protocols.
Dr Mauro Valeri
The research activity of Mauro Valeri involved the study of quantum technology for quantum communication and Metrology. During his Ph.D., he developed integrated and bulk sources of entangled photons to be distributed in quantum networks and exploited for quantum information protocols. He is is author of 9 publications in scientific journals, including 1 Science Advances, 1 Nature Photonics, 1 Nature Communications, 1 Physical Review Applied, and 2 Optica with an h-index of 6 according to Google scholar.
Dr Niko Viggianiello
Currently working as Biology Application Specialist at Crisel Instruments srl, he received his PhD in Sapienza Università di Roma working on on quantum optics, quantum information and integrated photonics. Focusing on topics dealing with validation of quantum information algorithms and benchmark speed-up protocols able to study the limits of quantum computational supremacy.
Dr Chiara Vitelli
Currently working at Italian Power Exchange, she received her PhD in Sapienza Università di Roma. Her activity as post-doc primarily focused on integrated optical circuits for investigation of quantum information protocols and quantum simulation.
Former master students
Francesco Andreoli
Flavio Baccari
Anita Camillini
Innocenzo De Marco
Gianluca De Santis
Valerio Di Giulio
Andres F. Duran Hernandez
Sabrina Emiliani
Francesco Graffitti
Luca Innocenti
Mariagrazia Iuliano
Ludovico Latmiral
Alessandro Laneve
Alessandro Lumino
Lorenzo Magrini
Michele Mancusi
Guglielmo Marchese
Valerio Muredda
Matteo Pompili
Giulia Rubino
Marco Romano
Luca Santodonato
Raffaele Silvestri
Mattia Verducci
Enrico Vignola