Simone Luca Portalupi (University of Stuttgart, Germany) obtained his PhD in physics from the university of Pavia, Italy, working on silicon photonics and spectroscopy of nanostructures and microcavities. He further worked on nanofabrication during his stay at the university of St. Andrews (UK). During his postdoc at the LPN-CNRS (now C2N-CNRS) he worked on quantum optics with semiconductor quantum dots, and on deterministic fabrication technologies. Since 2014 he is group leader at the IHFG-university of Stuttgart. His research focuses on semiconductor quantum dots, quantum optics, cavity quantum electrodynamics, photonic integrated quantum circuits, hybrid quantum systems, long distance quantum implementations and advanced deterministic fabrication techniques. 

Rinaldo Trotta (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) received the PhD in Materials Science in 2008 from the University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy), where he also stayed as a postdoc for one year. In 2010 he joined the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences (at IFW Dresden, Germany), first as postdoc and then as leader of a research group working on the effects of external perturbations on the optical properties of self-assembled quantum dots. In 2012 he moved as University Assistant to the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz (Austria), where he founded the Nanophotonics group. At JKU, he became Assistant Professor (2013) and, after completing his Habilitation (venia docendi), Associate Professor in Experimental Physics (2017). In November 2017 he moved back to the Sapienza University, where he is Associate Professor and leads the Nanophotonics group. His current research activity focuses on the possibility of using semiconductor nanostructures as sources of non-classical light for quantum information science and technology. The dissimenination activities related to this school are promoted to raise awareness of the objectives and the thematics of the following research projects of R. Trotta:  QD-E-QKD (financed by QuantERA II program that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement No 101017733 v): EPIQUE (financed by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program under the Project GA No. 101135288). 

Daniele Bajoni (University of Pavia, Italy) obtained his PhD degree in 2004 from the University of Pavia with a dissertation on optical spectroscopy of photonic crystals and microcavities. After holding a post-doc position at LPN-CNRS (FR), he obtained a tenure position as assistant professor in experimental solid-state physics at the University of Pavia, where he was appointed associate professor in 2014. His research interests include experimental quantum photonics and quantum artificial intelligence. He has demonstrated several devices for quantum optics integrated in silicon chips, including one of the first demonstration of a source of entangled photon pairs on a silicon chip.

Daniele Bajoni teaches Basic Electromagnetism for Bachelor Students in Engineering, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Technologies and Quantum Simulation for master students.