G. Massimo Palma: He is full Professor in theoretical condensed matter and quantum optics theory and head of the Physics and Chemistry department “Emilio Segre” at University of Palermo.
He was awarded his PhD in quantum optics 1991 by the University of Palermo under a joint tutorship with the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London. Visiting Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (Garching) and Human Capital Mobility Fellow at the Clarendon Laboratory Oxford he became Lecturer in 1996 (Unipa) and associate Professor at the University of Milan in 2002. Back in Palermo since 2005 he became Full Professor in 2016.
Founding chairman of the PhD course in Physical and Chemical Sciences (2013 – 2021). Member of the editorial board of New Journal of Physics (IOP), the International Journal of Quantum Information (WS), Entropy and Quantum Reports (MDPI). Codirector of the school of “non equilibrium phenomena” of the Ettore Majorana Foundation (Erice). One of the pioneers – since 1992 – of Quantum Information Theory, he is the founding president of the SISTEQ, the Italian society for quantum science and technology.
His research interests include
- Quantum Information Processing
- Quantum Optics & Optomechanics
- Thermodynamics of quantum systems
- Open quantum systems
- Machine learning for quantum processes
- Foundations of quantum theory
Salvatore Lorenzo: He is a professor of physics of matter at the Physics and Chemistry department of the University of Palermo. He holds the Italian National Scientific Habilitation as Full Professor in Theoretical Physics of Matter (02B2). His academic journey includes postdoctoral research positions at various universities, such as Milano, Cosenza, and Palermo, and visiting researcher roles at institutions like the University of Belfast and the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics (IFISC) at the University of Balearic Islands.
He is actively involved in the academic community, serving as a referee for esteemed journals like PRL, PRX Quantum, PRR, PRA, PRB, NJP, EPL and being a member of editorial boards for journals such as Plos One and Heliyon-Physics. He has authored more than 40 papers in reputable peer-reviewed journals, including Physical Review Letters, Optica, and Scientific Reports addressing open quantum systems dynamics, quantum optics, quantum information, quantum thermodynamics, and quantum machine learning.His work has attracted over 1500 citations.
His research interests include
- Open quantum systems
- Quantum Optics
- Quantum Information
- Quantum Thermodynamics
- Quantum Machine Learning
Luca Innocenti: Luca is a researcher at the Department of Physics and Chemistry of the University of Palermo. He completed his PhD in quantum machine learning and quantum information theory at Queen’s University Belfast in 2021 under the supervision of Mauro Paternostro and Alessandro Ferraro. He did a postdoc period in Olomouc working on methods to detect nonclassicality in quantum optical experiments with Radim Filip, and then moved to the University of Palermo. His research interests include quantum machine learning, with a focus on quantum reservoir computing and quantum extreme learning machines, quantum metrology, and foundational topics such as quantum Darwinism and quantum information scrambling.
His research interests include
- Quantum machine learning
- Quantum information theory
- Quantum optics