Tommaso Calarco

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Prof. Dr. Tommaso Calarco has pioneered the applica6on of quantum op6mal control methods to quantum computa6on and to many-body quantum systems. Currently the Director of the Ins6tute for Quantum Control of the Peter Grünberg Ins6tute at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Professor of Quantum Informa6on at the Ins6tute of Theore6cal Physics of the University of Cologne, Tommaso received his PhD at the University of Ferrara and started to work as a postdoc in the group of P. Zoller at the University of Innsbruck. He was appointed as a Senior Researcher at the BEC Centre in Trento in 2004 and as a Professor for Physics at the University of Ulm in 2007, where he then became Director of the Ins6tute for Complex Quantum Systems and of the Centre for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology. He has authored in 2016 the Quantum Manifesto, which ini6ated the European Commission’s Quantum Flagship ini6a6ve, and is currently co-Chair of one of the Flagship’s Governing Bodies: The Quantum Community Network (QCN). In 2020, together with the QCN, he has launched an ini6a6ve towards the crea6on of a consor6um of European quantum industries, which has been legally established in 2021 under the name of European Quantum Industry Consor6um (QuIC). Since 2025 he is the Secretary of the Top-level Advisory Board on Quantum Technologies chaired by EC Execu6ve Vice-President Henna Virkkunen.