Prof. Dr. Vladimír Bužek, DrSc. graduated from the Moscow State University (both MSc and Ph.D. in 1982 and 1985, respectively). His research interests have been focused primarily on theoretical quantum optics and quantum information sciences.  He is best known for his work on the reconstruction of quantum states and processes from incomplete experimental data, programmable quantum processors, quantum cloning, novel algorithms for quantum secret sharing and quantum voting protocols. Altogether he published more than 230 research papers and 15 chapters in books that were cited in the scientific literature more than 12 000 times. He works at the Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences. Over years he has been a visiting professor at…

Mário Ziman studied theoretical physics at Comenius University. He completed his doctoral studies at the Institute of Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where under the guidance of prof. Vladimír Bužek worked on programmable quantum processors, models of quantum dynamics and the issue of multiparticle quantum coupling. As part of the SCIEX postdoctoral fellowship, he worked at the ETH in Zurich. He currently works at the Institute of Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and lectures at Comenius University, the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava and Masaryk University in Brno. In his research he deals with mathematical structures of quantum physics, quantum communication and quantum information processing. He has p…

Dr. Djeylan Aktas is head of the experimental photonics quantum communication group at the Institute of Physics of Slovak Academy of Sciences (IPSAS). He received his diploma in fundamental physics from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in 2011. He has obtained a PhD in experimental quantum photonics in the same university at the INPHYNI with the QPI team in 2016 gaining a wide knowledge in designing complex photonics experiments and their applications in quantum communication and sensing. After that, he became Senior Research Associate in the quantum communication team at QETLabs leading the work on the development of integrated photonics devices for quantum networks. After his involvement in the first phase of the UK National Qua…

Prof. Miroslav Grajcar, DrSc., Graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Comenius University (MSc in 1989 and PhD in 1993). He is an expert in accurate measurements at low temperatures, mainly focused on superconducting qubits. He designed and participated in the implementation of the first three-qubit adiabatic quantum simulator. He has published more than 100 CC scientific papers cited in the scientific literature more than 3,000 times. He has received several scientific awards: 1997 - Award of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for scientific work, 2004 - Award of the Ministry of Culture of Thuringia in Germany for basic research, 2007 - Award of the Ministry of Education for the best research team in 2007. He has attended …

Dr. Rupert Ursin is the co-founder of the quantum technology company qtlabs GmbH and the leader of the quantum communication group at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses primarily on the development of quantum communication infrastructures on earth, but also in space. His interests cover short-term engineering solutions for the quantum distribution of the encryption key (quantum cryptography) to speculative research into the decoherence of interconnected states in gravitational fields. He participated in the first non-laboratory experiments in the field of quantum teleportation over the Danube (distance 600 m), as well as quantum cryptography tests in t…