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Team

We are proud of having an international and multidisciplinary team that makes Qilimanjaro a source of not only science and technology, but also of great talent.

Our people have the opportunity to work in a cutting edge and motivational environment.

Theoretical physicist and computer engineer, with a focus on quantum computer architectures and compilation methods

PhD Physics - University of York (UK) National Institute of Informatics (Japan)

NII, YCQT, UIB, UOC

Marta P Estarellas
Chief Executive Officer

Extensive CEO & Board Chair experience of high tech startups

Senior Executive and VicePresident roles at Hewlett Packard, SGI, 3Com and PerkinElmer

PhD Physics at UB and MBA at ESADE

Víctor Canivell
VP of Strategy and co-founder

Senior Software Lead and Consulting Manager in digital identity

Postgraduate in Quantum Engineering - UPC

MBA - ESADE & Stern NYU

BSc in Computer Science - UPC

Albert Solana
Chief Business Officer

Research Professor at IFAE

World expert in Particle Physics and Astroparticle Physics

PhD in Physics - UB

Manel Martínez
Chief Technology Officer

 

M&A advisor in domestic and international deals

Founder of ArsCorporate and Ars.Legal

UAB, EADA, IESE

Jordi Blasco
Chief Legal Officer and co-founder

Former Data Analyst - Glovo

MSc in Theoretical Physics - UB

BSc in Physics - UAB

Guillermo Abad
Quantum Engineer

Trainee Data Analyst at Schneider Electric

Quant Finance Intern at UBICS

Last yeat student BSc in Physics - UB

Adrià Blanco
Quantum Engineer

MSc in Quantum Science and Technologies - UB

BSc in Physics - UBo

Josep Bosch
Quantum Engineer

Industrial engineer with focus on Industry and R&D project management

Former Project Director and co-founder of Steering Machines

BsC in Industrial Engineering – ETSEIB-UPC

Juanjo Canuto
Project Manager

MSc in Condensed Matter Physics - Ocean University of China

BSc in Applied Physics - China University of Petroleum

Yifei Chen
Quantum Engineer

Former Communications and Marketing coordinator and Collaborator in EU Media Policy

PhD. in Audiovisual Communication and Media Policy-UAB

BsC in International Communications-Hanze Groningen

Andreea Costache
Project Management Assistant

PhD student at IFAE

MSc Elementary Particle Physics - U Salento

BSc Elementary Particle Physics - U Salento

Annalisa De Lorenzis
Quantum Engineer

Associate professor at UAB

Former RF/MW R&D product engineer at IDNEO technologies

Msc in Telecommunications - UAB

BSc Telecommunication electronics - UAB

David Eslava
Quantum Engineer

Group Leader, Quantum Computing Technology group at IFAE

Experimental physics, expert in superconducting qubits

PhD Physics - TU Delft MIT, Caltech and IQC Waterloo

Pol Forn-Díaz
Staff Quantum Engineer and co-founder

MSc in Quantum Science and Technology - UB

BSc in Physics - UV

Catalin Giurgea
Quantum Engineer

KIT former researcher

MSc in Physics Engineering - Uni Coimbra

BSc in Physics Engineering - Uni Coimbra

Fabio Henriques
Quantum Engineer

Chris Hensel
Quantum Engineer

Communication Degree - UOC

CFGS Marketing & Advertising - CEP

Claudia Huix
Office Manager

MSc in Nanotechnology - Chalmers U

BSc in Engineering Physics - UPC

Paul Jamet
Quantum Engineer

Former Communications Officer and Data Analyst in scientific and non-scientific institutions

MSc in Science Communication - UPF

BSc in Physics - UB

Alícia Labián
Corporate Operations Manager

PhD student in the QCT group - IFAE

MSc in Advanced Physics - UB

BSc in Physics - UB

David López
Quantum Engineer

Extensive experience in Tech Transfer and Innovation

PhD Physics -Weizmann IS (Israel), Freiburg Univ (Germany)

PDD - IESE

Postgraduate in R&D&I Management at ULL

Eva Martín
Innovation and Product Manager

Currently pursuing a BSc in Physics - UNED

MSc in Artificial Intelligence - VIU

BSc Computer Science - UAH

Juanjo Martínez
Quantum Engineer

Currently in an Executive MBA - IESE

Postgrad in HR Management - EADA

BSc in Labor Relations - UPF

María Meneses
Human Resources Manager

MSc in Physics Engineering - UPC

BSc in Applied Physics - St John's Uni

Jose Miralles
Quantum Engineer

Former Xanadu Quantum Software Engineer

MSc in Quantum Engineering - ETH Zurich

BSc Physics - UB

Albert Mitjans
Senior Quantum Engineer

MSc in Quantum Computing - UNIR

BSc Physics - Uni of Murcia

Andrés Navas
Quantum Engineer

Undergraduate researcher at ICCUB

MSc student in Quantum Science and Technology - UB

BSc in Theoretical Physics - UB

Jan Nogué
Quantum Engineer

MSc in Physics of Complex Systems - IFISC-UIB

BSc in Physics - UCM

Ana Palacios
Quantum Engineer

Former Software Engineer at Quside, Barcelona

MSc in Photonics - UAB, UB, UPC & ICFO

BSc in Physics - UAB

Joel Pérez Díaz
Quantum Engineer

Technology consulting analyst at Accenture

MSc in Artificial Intelligence - UPC/UB/URV

BSc in Physics Engineering - UPC

Jordi Riu
Senior Quantum Algorithms Lead

Former lead developer at Air-Fi

MSc in High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology - UAB, IFAE

BSc in Physics - UAB

Javier Sabariego
Quantum Engineer

Group Leader, QUANTIC group at BSC

Theoretical physics, expert in quantum algorithms, ML

PhD Physics at ICFO UNY/Stony Brook

Artur Garcia Sáez
Staff Quantum Engineer and co-founder

Quantum Engineer with focus on hardware and control

Final year PhD in Quantum Computing - TU Delft

MSc in Physics

Ramiro Sagastizabal
Senior Quantum Engineer

MSc in Information and Computer Sciences - Uni Lu

MSc in Astrophysics and Space sciences - UB

BSc in Physics - UB

Victor Sanchez
Quantum Engineer

Experimental condensed matter physicist, with focus on quantum hardware and nanofabrication

Postgraduate in SC qubit hardware - UQ and ENS de Lyon

PhD Physics - TU Delft

Daniel Szombati
Senior Quantum Engineer

PhD in Nanophysics - CEA

MSc in Nanophysics - Uni Grenoble-Alpes

BSc in Physics - U. Autónoma de Madrid

Gonzalo Troncoso
Quantum Engineer

MSc in Quantum Computing and Quantum Technologies - DUTH, NCSR Democritus

MSc in Space Science - UOP, NOA

BSc in Computer Science - UOP

Vyron Vasileiadis
Quantum Engineer

Former Machine Learning Scientist at dida Datenschmiede, Berlin

MSc - C.v.O. - FU Berlin

BSc in Physics - University of Oldenburg

Matthias Werner
Quantum Engineer

BSc in Physics - Pup-lytechnic University of Catalonia

Dora
Chief Dog Officer

Advisors

Rami Barends


Stefano Carrazza


Fabio Gallo


Jose Ignacio Latorre


Arkady Fedorov

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Our team joins us from all over the globe to bring us their quantum expertise.

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We are international_

Our team joins us from all over the globe to bring us their quantum expertise.

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Grants_

EIC Transition

Ayudas: Torres Quevedo y Doctorados industriales

Doctorats Industrials

Proyectos: Misiones y Neotec

Fondos Next Generation

Plan R, T y R

Proyectos: CUCO
AMETIC Award: Excelencia Empresarial

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2021 Catalonia Exponential Leaders

Best Startup 2021 - Premi Senén Vilaró

5 Top QC Startups - 2022

2022 BCN Deep Tech Award Winner

Batch #5 - Most Improved Start-up Award

Hello Tomorrow - Deep Tech Pioneers

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PYME Innovadora

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Marta P Estarellas

Chief Product Officer and Team Manager

Marta focuses on the design of new techniques to reduce the qubit overhead required to encode complex problems into a quantum annealer; the simulation of quantum many-body systems and the study of its quantum information processing abilities; the study of representations, compilation and optimization methods for quantum algorithms; and the development of metrics and benchmarks to assess and compare the power of quantum devices. She is also interested in identifying complex problems in quantum chemistry that could be efficiently solved by quantum annealers.

 

She is actively collaborating with the University of York (UK) and the National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo). She is also known for her passion for craft beer, dogs and japanese food.

Victor Canivell

Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer

Victor is a quantum physics PhD with a thirty year successful track record as an executive in the IT industry. He brings to QQT his strategic vision and management experience from his over twenty years in West Coast industry leaders (Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Graphics, 3Com) as EMEA director and VicePresident, plus another twenty years driving software startups in the security and bioinformatics fields as CEO and Board member, having sold the latter startup to PerkinElmer. Victor PhD’s is from University of Barcelona and  he is also an MBA from ESADE, having followed  subsequent training at INSEAD and IESE.

Responsible for strategy direction, business planning, plan execution, team spirit, key partnerships and financing (clients, private and public).

Albert Solana

Business Developer Manager

Albert Solana is the current Software Lead and holds a postgraduate in Quantum Engineering (UPC), an MBA at ESADE & Stern NYU and a BSc in Computer Science (UPC). He developed his professional experience in the consulting business in innovative technologies, such as: digital identity, blockchain, Big Data and Data Science, and quantum computing. Currently coordinating the software team to design and implement the Quantum as a Service (QaaS) to provide service for Qilimanjaro clients.

Manel Martínez

Chief Technology Officer

Manel Martinez is Research Professor at IFAE, where he has been Scientific Director of the Severo Ochoa Excellence Program and member of its management for over 8 years, managing the 8 M€ Severo Ochoa Grant.

 He got his PhD in 1986 at UB, and has worked as a Particle Physicist in accelerators at DESY (Hamburg), CERN (Geneva) and SLAC (Stanford) and later in observatories for Astrophysics and Astroparticle Physics in Chile and the Canaries.

 

He is a recognised world expert in Particle Physics and Astroparticle Physics, and the design and construction of complex and innovative instrumentation for High-Energy-Physics and its applications. During his career, he has led many international teams of scientists and engineers in state-of-the-art instrumentation development and construction of all kinds of devices, and all project sizes. He is also a world reference in VHE Gamma Ray astronomy in which he has lead an international Collaboration of about 250 scientists and engineers for the design and construction of the MAGIC Telescopes (a project of about 15 M€), and later a world-wide Consortium of about 1800 scientist and engineers for the design and construction of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) (a project of about 500 M€). In the last years he has participated actively together with Dr. Pol Forn-Diaz in the construction of the Quantum Computing Laboratory infrastructure at IFAE.

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Jordi Blasco

Co-Founder & Chief Financial & Legal Officer

Jordi is the founder and managing partner of ArsCorporate, a global investment banking boutique in Barcelona, member of the M&A WORLDWIDE, a global M&A firm alliance. Jordi is a M&A advisor, lecturer, and serves on a number of Boards of Directors and/or Advisory Boards, from sizable SMEs, family-owned companies or listed companies.

Responsible for Financial and legal directions, funding rounds and legal compliance.

Guillermo Abad

Quantum Engineer

Guillermo studied Physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) where he did his Bachelor’s Thesis about Skyrmions in the superconducting group, where after graduating, he kept researching them and collaborating as an Associate Professor of Computer Modelling.
Meanwhile, he also did an MSc in Theoretical Physics at the University of Barcelona (UB), where he did his Master’s Thesis about QED in 1+1dim.
He then continued his career into the industry, working at Glovo for 7 months, where he made up his mind about entering the quantum computation world, joining Qilimanjaro’s Software Team, where he is using and growing his knowledge in quantum physics and computer science with the development of software to control our quantum hardware.

Adrià Blanco

Quantum Engineer

Adrià is a last year BSc student in Physics at UB. Before joining Qilimanjaro’s QaaS team as a junior software engineer, he carried out two internships. First, he collaborated with Dr. Miquel Montero to develop teaching material for Master Students related to Quant Finance. Then, he worked as a Trainee Data Analyst for Schneider Electric, where he was introduced to AWS services. His professional interests span across Data Science, Quantitative Finance and Quantum Computing. In fact, in his BSc Final Thesis he is exploring how quantum annealing will help to solve very complex financial problems, such as portfolio optimization.

He would define himself as proactive, intense and fast-learner. Always eager to learn and broaden his horizons.

Josep Bosch

Quantum Engineer

Josep studied a BSc in Physics and a MSc in Quantum Science and Technologies at University of Barcelona. He carried out his Master Thesis with Qilimanjaro’s Theory team, where they explored efficient encodings for solving logistics problems with quantum computers.
Currently Josep is working on algorithms and applications of quantum computing for industry, with the goal of solving large real-world problems with quantum devices.


Outside the office, he enjoys activities such as climbing, horse-riding or watching Formula 1.

Juanjo Canuto

Project Manager

Juanjo has a BsC and MsC Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB-UPC). He began his professional career as a project engineer and later as an industrial project manager at the CDEI-UPC technology center. Based on various patents he obtained with his colleagues, he founded the company Steering Machines in 2018. This company successfully brought an innovative autonomous mobile robot from an idea to the real market. Since then, he has developed his career as a project manager for industrial projects.

Yifei Chen

Quantum Engineer

Yifei just started the second year as a PhD student at the UAB Barcelona and obtained a fellowship from AGAUR-Agency for Management of University and Research Grants, as an Industrial PhD working in the hardware team of Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech.

Yifei ́s PhD thesis is entitled “Digital and Analog Quantum Computers”. She is aiming to build a digital quantum computer based on quantum gates with trasmons. At the same time, Yifei is exploring novel couplers for quantum annealers to improve the coherence between qubits.

Andreea Costache​

Projects and Communications Officer

Andreea Costache holds a Ph.D. (Cum Laude) in Communications from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She studied European Media Policy, with a focus on media pluralism and media governance. She holds a Master’s degree from the Faculty of Psychology, University of Bucharest, and a Bachelor degree in International Communication, from Hanzehogeschool, The Netherlands.

Andreea has experience in international communication and marketing, working and studying in Boston, USA, Brussels and Barcelona. With expertise in both academic and marketing writing while conducting extensive research and managing large volumes of information to deliver clear and broad information.

She is a sports enthusiast, loves playing tennis, skiing and holds a black belt in judo.

Annalisa De Lorenzis

Quantum Engineer

Annalisa is a first year PhD student at IFAE Barcelona and obtained a fellowship from AGAUR-Agency for Management of University and Research Grants, as an Industrial PhD working in the theory team of Qilimanjaro.

She explores quantum machine learning algorithms to improve the capabilities of classical approaches.

She aims at identifying a potential quantum advantage in the intersection of machine learning and high-energy physics using, as a benchmark task, the classification of images collected from the Hyper-K detector.

Among other things, she likes cake design and chess.

Recently, she has been admitted to the IESE Executive MBA, starting in September 2022. She is passionate about her family, with a special mention to her baby girl, Luna.

Responsible for Brand development, project PR, projects’ milestone management with fluent workflow and people management.

David Eslava

Quantum Engineer

David is a second year PhD student at the UAB Barcelona and obtained a fellowship from AGAUR-Agency for Management of University and Research Grants, as an Industrial PhD working in the hardware team of Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech. His Phd thesis is entitled: “Microwave technology for quantum processors”.

David’s PhD is looking at novel ways to enhance the readout of qubits. David is working on using new filters to improve coherence times and optimizing elements of the readout chain to improve the signal to noise ratio. These improvements will allow more complex problems to be solved using a quantum processor.

Pol Forn-Díaz

Co-Founder & Chief Hardware Architect

Pol obtained his PhD from TU Delft in 2010 with a study of superconducting flux qubits and the limits of the force of interaction with a superconducting resonator. He was then postdoctoral researcher with the Kimble group at the California Institute of Technology, working on the interface of cold atoms and photonic waveguides. In a second postdoctoral stage, he was a fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, working with Dr C. Wilson and A. Lupascu on superconducting qubits interacting with the propagation of microwave fields. He is a partner at Entanglement Partners SL. In 2017, he was appointed BSC researcher to lead experimental efforts to build a quantum processor using superconducting circuits.

Catalin Giurgea

Quantum Engineer

Catalin has recently graduated form the Master in Quantum Science and Technology at University of Barcelona (UB), previously having accomplished a degree in Physics at the University of Valencia (UV).

 

He has been attracted to quantum physics ever since he saw it for the first time and thus he worked on his thesis project at ICN2, focusing on optically induced spin transport in two-dimensional heterostructures. He is joining the Hardware team as an intern to reinforce the fabrication branch.

Fabio Henriques

Quantum Engineer

Fabio has a Masters in Physics Engineering from the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Before joining Qilimanjaro, he worked on improving coherence of superconducting circuits in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), on quantum simulation in the University of Technology Sydney (Australia) and on trapped Ion quantum computers for eleQtron GmbH. His interests span the whole of quantum technologies with a special focus for quantum computing with superconducting qubits.

When not in the lab you will probably find him lost somewhere in nature, either going up a cliff or down a canyon. You can also sometimes hear him practicing bossa nova on the guitar.

Chris Hensel

Quantum Engineer

Chris focuses on studying, simulating and designing superconducting quantum circuits for quantum annealing. He works with all teams at the intersection of theory and experiments, bringing them together to pursue a flux qubit based coherent quantum annealer.

Among other things, he likes hiking, padel and nachos.

Claudia Huix

Office Manager

Claudia’s experience includes office administration and marketing. Currently, she is studying Communication focused on Business, and she has successfully completed studies in Marketing, which have provided her with a strong foundation in various strategies and practices. She is passionate about internal marketing and business management. She has gained valuable skills in event coordination, design, and market research through her experience in Dublin and Barcelona. She loves crocheting and making jewelry, and she is a huge fan of kayaking.

Paul Jamet

Quantum Engineer

Paul has recently graduated from the Nanotechnology Master program at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and has a Bachelor degree in Engineering Physics from UPC Barcelona. Paul’s Master thesis was focused on Quantum Thermodynamics. He designed, characterised and measured a three qubit device implementing autonomous qubit reset with thermal fields.
He joined Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech in September 2022 to strengthen the Hardware team in their mission to build the first Coherent Quantum Annealer.
In his spare time Paul enjoys sport climbing, windsurfing and watching motorsports.

Alicia Labián

Corporate Operations Manager

Alicia has a BSc in Physics and a MSc in Science Communication. She has worked in the field of Corporate Communications in high level research centers such as the Catalan Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) and the Institute for High Energy Physics (IFAE). She complements her scientific background with a wide vision of the startup and agency workflow. Alicia has also worked in advertising and consulting agencies. She joins QQT from the well-known Barcelona delivery unicorn Glovo.

Recently, she has been admitted to the IESE Executive MBA, starting in September 2022. She is passionate about her family, with a special mention to her baby girl, Luna.

Responsible for Brand development, project PR, projects’ milestone management with fluent workflow and people management.

David López

Quantum Engineer

David López-Núñez is a PhD student in the QCT group of Pol Forn. He studied a Degree in Physics and a Master’s Degree in Advanced Physics at the University of Barcelona. His PhD thesis, entitled “Coherent quantum annealing with superconducting qubits”,  is focused on the design, fabrication, and characterization of multi-qubit annealing processors. He is also working on basic superconductivity studies.

He has joined Qilimanjaro as a part-time worker and his work is mainly devoted to developing the code for the control instrumentation and joining the efforts on the measurement of quantum processors.

Eva Martín

Innovation and Product Manager

Eva is a technology transfer and innovation professional, with a hybrid scientific & business background. She has +10 year experience in classical-quantum research (PhD Physics at ULL and postdoctoral research at Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) and Freiburg University (Germany)), plus another 15 years connecting university and industry at the tech transfer office of UB (PDD at IESE). Eva is passionate about translating scientific ideas into business opportunities that meet market needs. She has wide experience defining intellectual property strategy of scientific results, building alliances for public-private collaboration, developing business strategies for commercialization, and leading complex negotiations with international companies operating across Electronics, Photonics, Nanotechnology and Medtech sectors.

Juanjo Martínez

Quantum Engineer

Juanjo holds a MSc in Artificial Intelligence (VIU) and BSc in Computer Science (UAH) and it is currently pursuing a BSc in Physics (UNED). He has several years of experience in software engineering, specialising in Natural Language Processing models. He is interested in the intersection between quantum computation and machine learning, and in growing his knowledge about quantum information.

When off the keyboard, he likes spending time playing chess, taking photographs and printing them in the darkroom, attending music gigs and reading.

María Meneses

Human Resources Manager

Maria has a bachelor’s degree in Labor Relations at Pompeu Fabra and a postgraduate in Human Resources Managament at EADA. She has worked in the field of Human Resources since 2014 in companies from different sectors.
In september 2022 started studying the Exctuive MBA at IESE.
Is responsible for the design, development and implementation of People policies. Her incorporation is in charge of people management as well as the growth of the organization.

Jose Miralles

Quantum Engineer

Jose holds a Master’s Degree in Physics Engineering from UPC Barcelona and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Physics from St. John’s University in Minnesota.

Before joining Qilimanjaro he worked as a data scientist and as a machine learning engineer.
In his spare time Jose enjoys rock climbing, surfing, chess, and playing guitar.

Albert Mitjans

Senior Quantum Engineer

Conducted a bachelor’s degree in Physics at the University of Barcelona, during which I acquired self-taught skills in Python and Java programming languages. Studied a master’s degree in Quantum Engineering at ETH Zurich, where I gained useful knowledge in areas such as Quantum Information Processing and Quantum Optics. There I also achieved expertise in C, C++ and SQL programming languages. Worked as a Quantum Software Engineer at Xanadu Quantum Technologies. Currently supervising the software teams at Qilimanjaro to design and implement our own Quantum as a Service (QaaS).

Andrés Navas

Quantum Engineer

Andrés is a MSc student in Quantum Computing at the International University of La Rioja. He has a degree in Physics from the University of Murcia. He is interested in variational optimization algorithms such as QAOA. He has experience in the consulting sector to find solutions to problems with quantum computing.
Outside quantum computing, he is interested in Rugby.

Jan Nogué

Quantum Engineer

Jan is a MSc student in Quantum Science and Technology at the University of Barcelona. He is primarily interested in the industry’s applications of quantum annealing and quantum machine learning. He is helping us to develop quantum-ready solutions for our clients.

Outside the quantum world, he competes in beach volleyball with his twin brother.

Ana Palacios

Quantum Engineer

Ana is developing techniques to aid in the process of adiabatic quantum computation, as well as new encodings of problems within the framework of annealing that make explicit use of entanglement. She is also studying the use of a superconducting qubit network as a quantum reservoir computer to filter out noise, and her interest in the interface between condensed matter and quantum computation has her trying to understand one through the lens of the other.

When it comes to the classical realm, theater, hiking and tomatoes are among her favorite things.

Joel Pérez Díaz

Quantum Engineer

Joel studied Physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). After graduating, he worked in the tech industry for three years, where he gained experience as a software developer. With the goal of working in the Quantum Computing field, Joel did an MSc in Photonics at The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), where he did his Master Thesis using Machine Learning to detect Quantum Phase Transitions. He is currently a part of Qilimanjaro’s Software Team, where he is using and growing his knowledge in quantum physics and computer science with the development of quantum algorithms and the low-level software to control the quantum hardware.

Jordi Riu

Senior Quantum Algorithms Lead

Jordi studies the capabilities of quantum computation to tackle classical optimization problems, with specific focus on those that arise from large-scale real-world logistics challenges. This includes not only looking for suitable formulations of the problem to make its dimension treatable with near-term quantum devices, but also exploring hybrid classical-quantum optimization algorithms based on quantum circuit design through reinforcement learning techniques.

Quantum stuff aside, Jordi enjoys playing chess and sports in general. He listens to music non-stop, but restrains from dancing while doing it.

Javier Sabariego

Quantum Engineer

Once he obtained his MSc in High Energy Physics (UAB, IFAE), he started his professional career working as a backend web developer for Air-Fi, a small communications company were he would contribute to the development of a wifi-based Indoor Positioning System (ISP). Eventually, he would become the Product Manager of the ISP.


His professional and academic profiles would come together at Qilimanjaro, where he is currently a developer for the Quantum as a Service (QaaS) project.

Artur Garcia Sáez

Co-founder and Chief Software Architect

Artur Garcia-Saez obtained his Ph.D. at The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) working on classical and quantum correlations. Since then, he has worked at Universitat de Barcelona and the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook. He is currently working at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center on optimization problems and Machine Learning applications.

Ramiro Sagastizabal

Senior Quantum Engineer

Ramiro has a degree in Physics from the National University of Cordoba (Argentina), Master in Physics from the University of Aix-Marseille (France). During his PhD at TU Delft (The Netherlands) he specialized in design, fabrication and control of superconducting qubits, where this quarter he will read his thesis entitled “Experimental Quantum Simulations with Noisy Intermmediate-Scale Quantum Processors”.

Victor Sanchez

Quantum Engineer

Victor studied Physics at the University of Barcelona (UB). He also studied Astrophysics and Space sciences (MSc) at UB and worked as an assistant engineer with machine learning models at UB’s ICCUB Gaia group. Afterwards he studied an MSc in Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Luxembourg (uni.lu). For his master thesis he worked on a hybrid classic-quantum optimization algorithm with quantum annealing. Following his master’s degree, he worked at uni.lu‘s Parallel Computing and Optimization Group extending his master thesis research.
He is currently a part of Qilimanjaro’s Software Team where he works in between software and theory developing and making Qibo ready for adiabatic quantum computing and market applications.

Daniel Szombati

Senior Quantum Engineer

Daniel has obtained his PhD from the TU Delft on quantum transport in exotic low temperature semiconductor physics. He then dived into the world of superconducting qubits by taking on research position first at the University of Queensland in Brisbane and then at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, where he made his contribution to the field via significant scientific publications on first principle qubit physics. He is now leading the research efforts at Qilimanjaro towards a first coherent adiabatic quantum computing processor.

Gonzalo Troncoso

Quantum Engineer

Gonzalo holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain, and he also earned a Master’s degree in Nanophysics from the Université Grenoble-Alpes in France. He completed his academic journey by obtaining a PhD in Nanophysics from CEA in France, under the supervision of Romain Maurand and Silvano De Franceschi. During his PhD, Gonzalo’s research focused on Quantum Computing with Spin-Qubits and Hole Quantum Dot devices.
Gonzalo joined Qilimanjaro to contribute to laboratory research and technology development, with a particular focus on design and characterization. He brings his expertise to drive innovation and exploration in these areas.
Outside of his work, Gonzalo enjoys spending his time playing music, hiking in the mountains, and showcasing his dance moves.

Vyron Vasileiadis

Quantum Engineer

Vyron holds an MSc in Space Science (UOP, NOA) and BSc in Computer Science (UOP) and is currently pursuing an MSc in Quantum Computing and Quantum Technologies (DUTH, NCSR Democritus). He has several years of experience as a software engineer and has joined Qilimanjaro to aid in the development of low-level software for interacting with quantum hardware. In everyday life, you can find him hiking, watching series or attending music festivals.

Matthias Werner

Quantum Engineer

Matthias is interested in the intersection of machine learning and quantum computation, which includes variational quantum algorithms, quantum machine learning and classical machine learning applied in quantum technology. Furthermore, he investigates the role of quantum phase transitions in adiabatic quantum computing.

In his downtime, Matthias enjoys playing volleyball and the occasional round of padel, as well as the piano and the guitar.

Dora

Quantum Engineer

Dora’s great grandfather poured his heart and soul into the ultimate doggy invention—a pair of ears in superposition, one up and the other down. But along came Schrodinger’s Cat, the sneaky furball, and swiped the masterpiece. Unbelievable!

Now, Dora’s determined to even the score and prove that you can’t mess with a canine’s quest for perfectly lopsided ears. Revenge just got a whole lot floofier!

Rami Barends

Advisor

Prof. Dr. ir. Rami Barends is an expert on superconducting qubits. He was one of the lead researchers at Google during the demonstration of beyond-classical computing.

Prof. Barends obtained his PhD at Delft University of Technology from Prof. Teun Klapwijk, and later joined the team of Prof. John Martinis prior to merging with Google. Currently, Prof. Barends is the director of the new Peter Grünberg Institute for Functional Quantum Systems.

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Stefano Carrazza

Advisor

Prof. Dr. Stefano Carrazza is an expert in computational methods for science with particular emphasis in theoretical physics and Artificial Intelligence. Prof. Carrazza obtained his PhD at the University of Milan and later joined CERN as a senior research fellow in theoretical physics.

Currently, Prof. Carrazza is an associate professor at the University of Milan and coordinates several research projects involving high-energy physics, quantum computing, big data for economics and medical physics.

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Fabio Gallo

Advisor

Fabio Gallo is a recognized expert in the High Performance Computing (HPC) field, with over 35 years in senior management roles in this segment. He led international sales and marketing organizations for large IT companies such as IBM, Silicon Graphics, Cray, Bull and Lenovo and held senior executive roles, including CEO, in a number of technology start-ups.

He has been a steering board member for the German company Science + Computing and for the European Technology Platform for HPC (ETP4HPC) a European Union initiative aimed at enabling HPC developments in Europe.

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Jose Ignacio Latorre

Advisor

Prof. Jose Ignacio Latorre is an expert in quantum information theory. He is the Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) in Singapore and the Chief Researcher of the Quantum Research Centre at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi.

Prof. Latorre has an extensive research career at University of Barcelona, Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen, MIT and CERN, and has directed the Benasque Pedro Pascual Science Center. He is a prolific science communicator and has published several books on Quantum Technologies and Artificial Intelligence.

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Arkady Fedorov

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Dr. Arkady Fedorov completed his PhD studies at Clarkson University, US in 2005. His research work was primarily on theoretical aspects of quantum information science and decoherence in solid state systems. He was then appointed a postdoctoral fellow KIT, Germany working on a theory of superconducting quantum circuits in application to quantum computing and quantum optics phenomena. In 2007-2010 he worked in TU Delft, The Netherlands conducting experiments with superconducting flux qubits. After joining the University of Queensland, Australia as faculty member in 2013, he established a new experimental research laboratory and has been leading this laboratory since.

 

His most notable contributions include realization of several key components for quantum information processing with superconducting qubits. Among these are the first implementation of three three-qubit gates, the first implementation of quantum teleportation in solid-state and the most comprehensive test of quantum contextuality. For his research Fedorov was awarded the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2015 and the University of Queensland Foundation Excellence Research Fellowship in 2016

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