About Me
I am a student at ETH Zürich pursuing a Master's degree in Quantum Engineering. Currently, I am mostly interested in the development of state-of-the-art Superconducting Circuits architectures towards the goal of fault tolerance. I discovered the field during Prof. Kippenberg's Quantum Optics lecture at EPFL and immediately became interested in the use of cQED and Josephson Junctions for building a Quantum Computer. In 2024, I have joined Prof. Wallraff's QuDev laboratory to help build a 43-qubit setup which will ultimately show entanglement of two logical qubits. In the future, I am looking forward to continue working on this platform at different institutions to refine and expand my skillset.
I was born in a city embraced by the alps in Northern Italy, Trento. After leaving highschool, where I explored autonomous robotics and competitive programming, I moved to Milan to continue my studies and enrolled in the Engineering Physics Bachelor's at Politecnico di Milano.
In Milan, I had the chance to obtain a robust knowledge of fundamental physics along with a engineering mind- and skill-set which characterizes my whole career. During my final year in Milan I was selected for a scholarship to visit EPFL for a semester abroad, willing to take advantage of the flourishing research enviroment in Lausanne, I decided to join Prof. Galland's Laboratory of Quantum and Nano Optics to study the electric transport and optical properties of molecular nanojunctions. Furthermore, at EPFl I began exploring the world of Quantum Information Processing assisted by the lectures of Prof. Savona and Prof. Kippenberg, "Quantum Information and Quantum Computing" and "Quantum Electrodynamics" respectively. During his QED lecture, Prof. Kippenberg taught us the basics of Superconducting Circuits, I was captivated by the possibility to control such "basic" electric circuits at the Quantum level and by the elegance and semplicity of the resulting theoretical description. So after writing my thesis based on the work I had carried out at LQNO, I decided to jump head-first in the Superconducting Circuits world and the best way to do so presented itself in the form of the Quantum Engineering program at ETH.
During my last semester in Milan I also joined Enginsoft, an international simulation software company, to take part in the OPTIMA project. OPTIMA is a European Union project which aims at demonstrating a concrete improvement of HPC performance by using accelerators, more specifically in our case, FPGA cards. Enginsoft's task was to port and integrate a pre-existing CFD simulation with a FPGA-accelerated system located at Forschungszentrum Jülich.
At ETH I followed courses ranging from RF Signal Propagation to Quantum Information Theory, at the same time I joined Prof. Wallraff's Quantum Devices Laboratory. My task at QuDev was to expand the current setup (codeworded Otemma) to house the new 43-qubit chip, I mainly had to assemble from scratch the new half of the setup by interfacing control electronics, transmission lines, amplifiers and passive component outside and inside the dilution fridge. A big part of my work at QuDev also had me rewrite some of QuDev's PyQED library, in particular I put in place a paradigm shift in how triggering is done for all the setups pulses. Currently I am looking to join a laboratory and/or R&D department for my master thesis and possibly PhD, if you are looking for a curious student with a strong background knowledge but also ample research experience in cutting-edge labs, do not hesitate to contact me!
To be continued...