About the Editors
Editors-in-Chief
Sven Rogge, PhD
Professor of Physics
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Sven Rogge’s research interest is in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular quantum computation in silicon. He leads a team of enthusiastic researchers at the Australian Research Council Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology hosted at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Their focus is on gaining atomistic insight into the interactions of quantum objects, like atoms and qubits, with their environment. This allows them to manipulate quantum information and minimise decoherence. Before joining UNSW in 2011 he was at the Kavli Institute for Quantum Nano Science at Delft University and Stanford University.
Dan Browne, PhD
Professor of Physics
University College London
London, UK
Dan leads a research team on the theory of quantum computing. His research interests are broad, and include fault-tolerant quantum computation, architectures for quantum computing, measurement-based quantum computation, scalable linear optical quantum computing and quantum optics. He joined University College London in 2007, before which he was a Junior Research Fellow in at Merton College, Oxford. In addition to his PhD at Imperial College London, he also spent time as a research student at the university of Freiburg and LMU Munich.
Executive Editor
Bo Liu
Bo joined Springer Nature as a scientific editor at Nature Communications in 2017, where he handled manuscripts on solar cells and semiconductor photo-physics. He joined the npj series as a Managing Editor in 2020, and was promoted to Executive Editor of the Physical and Applied Science npjs in October 2021. Prior to his editorial career, Bo graduated from Zhejiang University, China, and obtained a PhD in Physics at National University of Singapore. He also worked as a postdoc at the Graphene Research Center in Singapore and University of Washington, US. He is based in Shanghai.
Associate Editors
Christian Andersen, PhD
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
Christian Andersen received his PhD from Aarhus University in Denmark in 2016. He subsequently held a postdoctoral position at ETH Zurich. Since 2021, he has led a research group at QuTech, TU Delft focusing on novel superconducting qubits. From 2023 to 2026, he also led the QuTech Academy.
Abolfazl Bayat, PhD
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)
China
Abolfazl Bayat is currently based at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu, where his research focuses on two interconnected directions: (i) quantum sensing and (ii) quantum machine learning. Across both domains, his work harnesses many-body systems, using them as the quantum entity to design both sensors and intelligent agents.
Dominic Berry, PhD
Associate Prof., Department of Physics and Astronomy
Macquarie University Research Centre in Quantum Science and Technology
Sydney, Australia
Dominic Berry has performed some of the foundational work in quantum algorithms for quantum simulation, pioneering the Trotter-Suzuki methods for quantum simulation in 2007, as well as introducing new approaches with exponential precision in 2014. He has also developed a range of adaptive techniques for phase estimation with highly nonclassical states, which have applications in precision metrology as well as quantum algorithms. Dominic Berry received his PhD at The University of Queensland (UQ) in 2002 and worked at Macquarie, UQ, and the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo before returning to Macquarie in 2011 as a Future Fellow.
Andreas Bluhm, PhD
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG
Grenoble, France
Andreas is a research scientist with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), working at the Grenoble Computer Science Laboratory (LIG). His research interests are quantum information theory and quantum spin systems. The questions he is trying to answer include how much entanglement is needed for secure quantum position verification, what the most incompatible quantum measurements are, or how well we can learn properties of unknown quantum many-body systems. Previously, he has been a postdoc at QMATH in Copenhagen, Denmark. He obtained his PhD from the Technical University of Munich.
Ezra Bussmann, PhD
Sandia National Laboratories
USA
Ezra and his group investigate quantum computing materials and the structure–properties–performance relationships that underpin quantum information processing. His research has centered on semiconductor quantum dots, donor spins, color centers, and the roles of defects, variability, and noise in quantum systems. Since 2010, Ezra has led a research group within Sandia’s Quantum Information Science and Technology program. Prior to joining Sandia, he worked at the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille in France, following the completion of his doctorate at the University of Utah in the United States.
Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, PhD
University of Naples Federico II
Naples, Italy
Angela Sara Cacciapuoti is a Professor of Quantum Communications and Networks at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy). Her work has appeared in first tier IEEE journals and she received different awards, including the “2024 IEEE ComSoc Award for Advances in Communication”, the “2022 IEEE ComSoc Best Tutorial Paper Award”, the “2022 WICE Outstanding Achievement Award” for her contributions in the quantum communication and network fields, and “2021 N2Women: Stars in Networking and Communications”.
She also received the IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Service Award for EMEA 2023, assigned for the outstanding service to IEEE ComSoc in the EMEA Region. Currently, she is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer with lecture topics on the Quantum Internet design and Quantum Communications. And she serves also as Member of the TC on SPCOM within the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Moreover, she serves as Area Editor for IEEE Trans. on Communications and as Editor/Associate Editor for the journals: IEEE Trans. on Quantum Engineering and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. She served as Area Editor for IEEE Communications Letters(2019 - 2023), and she was the recipient of the 2017 Exemplary Editor Award of the IEEE Communications Letters. In 2023, she also served as Lead Guest Editor for IEEE JSAC special issue "The Quantum Internet: Principles, Protocols, and Architectures". From 2020 to 2021, Angela Sara was the Vice-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering. Previously, she has been appointed as Publicity Chair of WICE. From 2017 to 2020, she has been the Treasurer of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group of the IEEE Italy Section. Her research interests are in Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Communications and Quantum Networks.
Oscar Dahlsten, PhD
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR
Oscar Dahlsten's research can be grouped into three areas: (i) the relation between information and energy (ii) quantum computing and machine learning, and (iii) the foundations of quantum theory. Oscar Dahlsten was trained at Imperial College and worked at ETH Zurich, NUS Singapore, Oxford University and SUSTech before joining City University of Hong Kong.
Dong-Ling Deng, PhD
Associate Professor, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Dong-Ling earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan and was the recipient of the Kent M. Terwilliger Memorial Thesis Prize (2015). Following a JQI (Joint Quantum Institute) postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland, he joined the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University in 2018. He is the recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. Prof. Deng's research group focuses primarily on quantum artificial intelligence, encompassing quantum enhanced AI as well as AI applications for quantum physics.
Sam Gorman, PhD
Centre for Quantum Computation and Comm Technology
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
As a postdoctoral researcher at UNSW, Sam Gorman's research focuses on phosphorus-doped silicon devices fabricated using scanning tunneling microscopy for quantum computing applications. He has performed experimental and theoretical work on the controllable coupling of electrons bound to multi-donor quantum dots, singlet-triplet state control and readout in double quantum dots, and state preparation and measurement of electron spin qubits at cryogenic temperatures.
Bálint Koczor, PhD
Associate Professor in Quantum Information Theory, Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Dr Koczor obtained his PhD degree from the Technical University of Munich where he worked on fundamental quantum theory and mathematical physics. After completing his PhD he made key contributions to quantum algorithms, quantum error mitigation and near-term, early-fault tolerant quantum computing. Dr Koczor has broad research interests in quantum computing and quantum information theory, and his research aims to tackle the central question in the field that “how can we achieve a robust quantum advantage”. He is the Associate Professor in Quantum Information Theory at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. He leads the Quantum Information, Computation and Cryptography group which works on a broad spectrum of problems in quantum computing, from applications and algorithms through to quantum error correction. Dr Koczor works closely with the London-based scale up Quantum Motion Technologies as a Lead Quantum Theorist.
Hari Krovi, PhD
Senior Research Staff Member and Manager, IBM Quantum
Cambridge, MA, USA
Hari Krovi works on various aspects of quantum computing and quantum information. He has worked on quantum algorithms for algebraic problems, graph-based problems and more recently, on simulation of differential equations. In addition to quantum algorithms, he has worked on quantum communications and quantum networks in the past. He joined IBM in 2025 and prior to that he was at Riverlane Research and Raytheon BBN Technologies.
Sheng-Kai Liao, PhD
Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale University of Science and Technology of China Hefei
Anhui, China
Sheng-Kai’s research focuses on free-space and satellite-based quantum communications, with an emphasis on designing and implementing experimental systems such as satellite-based decoy-state quantum sources, entanglement sources, single-photon detectors, synchronization modules, and high-precision tracking systems. His broader interests include laser and optoelectronic system technologies, electronics control systems for superconducting quantum computing, and high-precision optical clocks. He was among the world’s first to demonstrate satellite-to-ground quantum key distribution (QKD) using Micius and later realized real-time satellite-to-ground QKD with the microsatellite Jinan-1. Before joining the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Sheng-Kai received his Ph.D. from the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010.
Dawei Lu, PhD
Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen
Guangdong, China
Dawei's research focuses on experimental quantum information and quantum thermodynamics using spin-based systems such as nuclear magnetic resonance and solid-state color centers. He leads the spin quantum computing group at Southern University of Science and Technology. Before joining SUSTech, Dawei received his PhD at University of Science and Technology of China and held a postdoctoral position at University of Waterloo.
Junyu Liu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
I am Dr. Junyu Liu. an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing and Information, the University of Pittsburgh. I am interested in the relationship between quantum physics and computer science, especially quantum computing, quantum communication, machine learning and quantum sensing.
Xiao-Song Ma, PhD
School of Physics, Nanjing University Nanjing
Jiangsu, China
Professor Xiao-Song Ma joined School of Physics at Nanjing University in 2015. He obtained his B.S. from Nanjing University in 2003, M.S. from Leiden University in 2005 and Ph.D in Physics at University of Vienna in 2010 (supervised by Prof. A. Zeilinger, 2022 Nobel Laureate in Physics). He was a postdoc fellow in the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna from 2010 to 2012, and a Marie Curie fellow in Yale University from 2012 to 2015.
Michal Oszmaniec, PhD
Professor, NASK & CTP PAS
NASK / CTP PAS
Warsaw, Poland
Michał Oszmaniec is a theoretical physicist specialising in quantum computers and quantum information theory. He holds a Professor position at NASK and Center for Theoretical Physics, PAS in Warsaw, Poland. His research interests include: theoretical foundations of quantum supremacy, quantum complexity theory, the theory of quantum measurements and their application to quantum algorithms, as well as efficient protocols for certification and characterisation of quantum computers.
Rajib Rahman, PhD
Professor, School of Physics
The University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Rajib Rahman leads a research group on modelling and simulation of quantum materials and devices at UNSW. He develops first-principles and empirical techniques and software tools for predictive simulation of spin qubits. His work has shed light on efficient designs of silicon qubits and optimization of spin relaxation and decoherence times. Rajib also works on quantum transport in nano-electronic and opto-electronic devices. Rajib received a PhD from Purdue University in 2009."
Ralf Riedinger,PhD
Professor, Institute for Quantum Physics
Universität Hamburg
Hamburg,Germany
Ralf's research is focused on developing scalable quantum technology, using modular, network-based devices. His interest ranges from distributed quantum computing and sensing to practical quantum cryptography networks. He heads a research group on quantum networks at the Institute for Quantum Physics of the Universität Hamburg. There, he works on microphotonic interfaces to quantum processors, for example using color centers in diamond. Before moving to UHH, Ralf received his PhD from the University of Vienna and was a Feodor Lynen research scholar at Harvard University.
Dominik Šafránek, PhD
Charles University in Prague
Czech Republic
Dominik is a physicist working in quantum information, quantum metrology, quantum batteries, thermalization of quantum systems, and the concept of entropy. He is known for deriving several formulae for the Quantum Fisher Information matrix, a quantity that determines the sensitivity of a quantum detector and thus helps in designing them, and for the development of Observational entropy, generalization of Boltzmann entropy to quantum systems, which shows dynamical thermalization of quantum particles. He is the founder of the Observational entropy appreciation club. He is the Team Leader of the Quantum Information and Thermodynamics group and an Assistant Professor at Charles University in Prague, Czechia.
Xiaolong Su, PhD
Institute of Opto-electronics, Shanxi University
Taiyuan, China
Xiaolong’s research interest is focused on experimental and theoretical research in quantum optics and quantum information. He leads a research group on continuous-variable quantum information at Shanxi University, where he works on continuous-variable quantum computation and quantum communication, optical cat state, hybrid quantum information processing, and optical quantum chip.
Jinchao Sun, PhD
Queen Mary University of London
UK
Jinzhao's research revolves around quantum computing, quantum information, and quantum many-body physics. His research lies in the exploration of quantum computing as a means to address physical problems that present challenges for classical computing. He has broad interests in quantum computing, quantum information theory, quantum dynamics, open quantum systems, quantum error correction, quantum many-body physics and quantum chemistry. Before joining Queen Mary University of London as a permanent faculty member, he held a research fellowship in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, where he also served as a College Advisor at Reuben College and received his PhD.
Ryuji Takagi, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of basic science
University of Tokyo
Japan
Ryuji is interested in foundational aspects of quantum information theory, aiming to gain a quantitative understanding of the power of quantum resources in quantum information processing tasks, and how those quantities provide insights into operational aspects of quantum mechanics and related physical phenomena. His research focuses include quantum resource theories, entanglement theory, quantum thermodynamics, continuous-variable quantum information, and the theory of quantum error correction and mitigation. Before joining the University of Tokyo as an Associate Professor, where he leads a quantum information theory research group, Ryuji obtained his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a Lee Kuan Yew Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Rahul Trivedi, PhD
Senior Research Group Leader
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Garching (Munich), Bayern, Germany
Rahul Trivedi's current research focusses on the theoretical quantum information and quantum science, with an emphasis on the role of decoherence in many-body quantum systems. He is an engineer by training and his research topics are in physics - his work often lies at the inter-disciplinary boundary of physics and technology.
Gayane Vardoyan,PhD
Assistant Professor, Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Massachusetts,USA
As the idea of a Quantum Internet draws nearer to reality, protocols must be developed to enable users to reap as many of the potential benefits of this new technology as possible. A fundamental challenge in quantum networking is long-distance entanglement distribution to actualize such a task with near-term quantum devices of limited functionality, special care is needed to ensure that quantum-equipped users have entanglement of sufficiently high quality at their disposal. One focus of my research group is thus to develop efficient entanglement distribution algorithms, often inspired both by analytical models of quantum network architectures, as well as techniques found in classical networking literature. In general, we are interested in addressing the many challenges pertaining to distributed quantum systems, as well as seeking new quantum-enabled possibilities and applications.
Philip Walther, PhD
Prof., Faculty of Physics, Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics & Quantum Information Group
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Prof Walther's research areas are quantum computing, quantum cloud computing, quantum simulation experiments, the investigation of quantum correlations as resource, and multi-photon generation and manipulation and light-matter interactions.
Tie-Jun Wang, PhD
Professor, School of Science
School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Beijing, BJ, China
Tie-Jun Wang is a quantum information theorist whose research focuses on quantum networks, quantum computing, and quantum optics. She has conducted a series of studies on the development of wide-area quantum computing networks and the implementation of related quantum functional devices.
Ramona Wolf, PhD
University of Siegen
Siegen, Germany
Ramona Wolf is theoretical physicist specializing in quantum information theory with a focus on quantum cryptography. She lead a research group at the University of Siegen, where she investigate the security of quantum key distribution. Her work explores a range of questions, from security proofs for practical implementations to the connections between cryptographic protocols, the foundations of quantum mechanics and the nature of spacetime.
Bei Zeng, PhD
The University of Texas at Dallas
TX, USA
Bei Zeng (Chinese: 曾蓓) is a quantum information theorist. As well as quantum information, her research interests include quantum computing and quantum error correction. Additionally, her contributions to the field extend to topics such as many-body entanglement, quantum tomography, quantum marginals, and the applications of quantum information science in quantum matter.
Lai Zhou, PhD
Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences
Beijing, China
Lai Zhou’s research focuses on the experimental aspects of quantum communication, with an emphasis on quantum cryptography and quantum networks. He has made contributions to long distance quantum key distribution by simplifying system architectures and enhancing secure key rates. His work aims to develop practical quantum communication systems and establish efficient and reliable links between distant quantum nodes. His research interests also extend to quantum devices, including integrated photonic chips and single-photon detectors. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. from Tsinghua University and held a postdoctoral position at the University of Oxford.
Advisory Editor
Anna Pertsova, PhD, Springer Nature, Germany
Anna joined Nature Communications in June 2020. She obtained her MS degree from Moscow State University, followed by a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics at Trinity College Dublin. During her postdoctoral appointments at Linnaeus University and Nordita, she worked on topics related to topological and Dirac materials, including impurity effects, quantum transport phenomena and non-equilibrium dynamics. Anna handles manuscripts in the areas of many-body solid-state physics, solid-state qubits and solid-state implementations of single-photon sources. She is based in the Berlin office.
Editorial Board Members
David Awschalom, PhD, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Michael Biercuk, PhD, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Michael Bremner, PhD, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Paola Cappellaro, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, USA
Yu-Ao Chen, PhD, University of Science and Technology, Hefei and Shanghai, China
Andrew Childs, PhD, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA
Simon Devitt, PhD, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Klaus Ensslin, PhD, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Mark Eriksson, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Alessandro Fedrizzi, PhD, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Austin Fowler, PhD, Google Inc., California, USA
Jay Gambetta, PhD, Thomas J. Watson Research Center IBM, New York, USA
Yvonne Gao, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Lloyd Hollenberg, PhD, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Atac Imamoglu, PhD, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Elham Kashefi, PhD, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Ping Koy Lam, PhD, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Daniel Loss, PhD, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Marco Lucamarini, PhD, University of York, York, UK
Charles Marcus, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Christopher Monroe, PhD, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA
Franco Nori, PhD, RIKEN (Japan), University of Michigan, Michigan, USA
Jeremy O'Brien, PhD, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Tim Ralph, PhD, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
Michelle Simmons, PhD, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Robert J. Schoelkopf, PhD, Yale University, Connecticut, USA
Jacob Taylor, PhD, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Maryland, USA
Lieven Vandersypen, PhD, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft, Netherlands
Jelena Vuckovic, PhD, Stanford University, California, USA
Jörg Wrachtrup, PhD, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Amir Yacoby, PhD, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
Yoshihisa Yamamoto, PhD, Stanford University, California, USA
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