Research

Research Interests

My research interests are centered on the area of Quantum and Telecom Networks with a particular focus on entanglement distribution to (i) advance its understanding, (ii) develop novel modelling approaches, and (iii) create new technologies in the fields of Quantum Communications for industry.

Significance of the research:

As manifested in the Horizon Europe Program, one of Europe’s main objectives is to research and provide innovations to (i) help transition to climate-neutral economy, (ii) develop technologies to improve the quality of healthcare services, (iii) construct the next-generation industry, where communication engineering are some of the basic pillars, and (iv) lead the transformation in key digital enabling and emerging technologies. These are important objectives, which are also collected in the “Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica, Técnica y de Innovación”, and in “Pacte Nacional per a la Societat del Coneixement” of Catalonia.

Accordingly, communication networks are encountered underlying many of the objectives above and in a vast number of other fundamental and applied contexts, like for example in the use of Quantum Networks. However, many challenges arise in order to tackle these objectives, where a solid and applied engineering knowledge offers transverse skills widely applicable in both research and industrial developments to provide solutions. In particular, it is of relevant importance the knowledge in Quantum Principles, Communication Engineering and Networks (vertical topics - principles); to tackle a diverse set of demands in Quantum Technologies for current as well as for exploratory applications (horizontal topics - applications).

In this direction, related to the above topics and applications, my research interest is modelling and experimenting with the quantum processes involved in Quantum Networking, as shown the Figure below. In particular, monitoring the functional activity of quantum networking devices, in real-time, is of paramount importance in a wide range of scientific and engineering applications, like for example in distributed quantum computing (Leader election, Byzantine agreement, Coin flipping, Blind computing, among others), synchronization, and routing/repeaters, among others.