Acín Dal Maschio, Antonio

Engineering Sciences

Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO)

Phone 935534062

Email Antonio.Acin@icfo.es

Department Quantum Information Theory

Address Mediterranean Technology Park

Keywords

Quantum Information Theory
Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Thermodynamics
Many-Body Physics and Quantum Optics.

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Short biography

Antonio Acín is an ICREA Research Professor at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences. He has a degree in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He got his PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2001 from the UB. After a post-doctoral stay in Geneva, in the group of Prof. Gisin (GAP-Optique), he joined ICFO in 2003. At ICFO, Acín leads the Quantum Information Theory group. His research has been awarded with 4 grants from the European Research Council: 1 Starting, 1 Proof of Concept, 1 Consolidator and 1 Advanced Grant, the latter starting in 2020. He also received an AXA Chair in Quantum Information Science in 2016.