Dr. Tommaso Calarco

Professor of Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne Director, Institute for Quantum Control of the Peter Grünberg Institute

Tommaso Calarco is Director of the Institute for Quantum Control of the Peter Grünberg Institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Cologne. He 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 Institute for Complex Quantum Systems and of the Centre for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology. In 2016 he authored the Quantum Manifesto prompting the European Commission’s Quantum Flagship initiative.