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Matteo Marinelli

Junior Researcher

Research Interests:
Cold atoms, Quantum computing & Simulations, Quantum communication, Quantum optics

Biography

He received his Ph.D. in 2020 from ETH Zurich under the supervision of Jonathan Home, where he explored the use of mixed-species chains of trapped ions to conduct proof-of-principle experiments in quantum error correction and quantum computation. From 2020 to 2022, he served as the lead experimental scientist at the newly founded ETH-PSI Quantum Computing Hub, where he designed and led the construction of the Hub’s first experimental apparatus. In 2022, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation, joining JILA in Boulder, Colorado, in a joint collaboration with Adam Kaufman and Cindy Regal. At JILA, he co-supervised the construction of an innovative apparatus that integrated Rydberg atom arrays in a cryogenic environment to extend the atom lifetime and scale the system to thousands of qubits. In October 2024, he will begin a tenure-track position (RTT) at the University of Trieste, where he will establish a research group focusing on scalability challenges of neutral atoms trapped in optical tweezers, quantum communications and modular computing.