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I am physicist and my research is focused on the physics of superconducting quantum devices. I am head of the SQD (Superconducting Quantum Devices) Research Unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Trento (Italy). My scientific interests span from cQED, quantum optics and condensed matter to cryogenic detectors, neutrino physics and astro-particle physics.

In our cleanrooms and in our labs, we are dealing with Josephson junctions and superconducting microwave circuits and we are optimising the fundamental building blocks to develop quantum devices such as superconducting qubits and parametric amplifiers, superconducting detectors, sensitive magnetometers and hybrid quantum systems.

Every day we are tackling technological challenges related to microfabrication and cryogenics and we are studying and modelling the physics of the devices we are producing. To do that, we need to operate at millikelvin temperature, where the laws of physics are fully determined by quantum mechanics.

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Curriculum Vitae

Credits: FBK

📢 📢 We are looking for motivated PhD students and researchers to join our team 📢 📢 📢

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"These then are some illustrations of things that are happening in modern times — the transistor, the laser, and now these junctions, whose ultimate practical applications are still not known. The quantum mechanics which was discovered in 1926 has had nearly 40 years of development, and rather suddenly it has begun to be exploited in many practical and real ways. We are really getting control of nature on a very delicate and beautiful level."

R. P. Feynman, “The Schrödinger Equation in a Classical Context: A Seminar on Superconductivity.” Chap. 21 in “The Feynman Lectures on Physics,” by Feynman, R.R, R. Leighton, and M. Sands. Vol. 3. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1965

I-V characteristics of a Josephson junction (wikimedia)

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