Valentina Parigi is Full Professor since 2023 and had been Associate Professor (2015-2023)  in the Quantum Optics group at LKB, working in the Multimode Quantum Optics team.

Her interests range from the foundations of quantum mechanics to the experimental implementation of basic tools for quantum information technologies. She obtained her PhD at LENS (European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy) in Florence under the supervision of Marco Bellini. During her PhD she worked on  generation, manipulation and characterization of non-classical states of light and she realized the first experimental test on quantum commutation rules. She then worked on non-linear effects at the single photon level by exploiting the long-range interactions in ensemble of Rydberg atoms,  atomic quantum memories and near-field characterization of disordered nanostructures.

Memberships and responsibilities

• Member of the international team organizing the Quantum Science Seminar (2020-2022)

• Organizer of Complex Systems: Quantum information and computation, satellite conference of the CCS2022 in Complex Systems conference (Palma de Mallorca; October 17 -22, 2022); Organizer of the Scientific Meeting of the Royal Society – Foundations of quantum mechanics and their impact on contemporary society, December 11-12, 2017, London.  Member of the organizing committee of the ICOQC 2018 conference – International Conference on Quantum Computing November 26-30, 2018, Paris. Member of the organizing committee of the European project Open FET QCUMbER- Quantum Controlled Ultrafast Multimode Entanglement and Measurement. Organizer of the Cargese School of Quantum Information and Quantum Technology summer school June 21 – 25, 2021, Cargèse . 

• Member of the scientific committee of the conferences: QTech 2018 Quantum technology International conference, September 5-7, 2018, Paris; CEWQO 2018- Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics; quantum information and quantum information thematic committee for CLEO- Laser Science for photonic applications- year 2019 and year 2020. Member of the EQEC/CLEO 2023 committee in Quantum Optics. 

Scientific Track Record and awards

• Médaille de bronze CNRS 2020

• Awarded 2018 – ERC Consolidator Grant. Project: COQCOoN: “Continuos Variables Quantum Complex Networks”

• Emergence CNRS -2016 on “Information quantique optique non-linéaire” – Spectrally broadened optical frequency comb by non-linear photonic crystal fiber for manipulating hundreds of q-modes in quantum information processes. Role in the project: main investigator.

• Emergence Sorbonne Université 2016 PiCQuNet: Photonic platform for Complex Quantum Networks. Role in the project: main investigator

Other projects