Contacts

Leader (IT): Armando Nolasco Pinto (anp@ua.pt)

IT

Optical Quantum Communications Group (OQC‐Av)

Address: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

Phone: +351 234 377 900

Link: https://www.it.pt/ITSites/Index/3

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Latest News

• Award - Best PhD Thesis

  Daniel Pereira was honored at the sixth edition of the International Conference on Optics and Photonics – #AOP2024, with the award for "Best PhD Thesis in Optics and Photonics in Portugal in 2023". This research was conducted as part of the #QuantumPrime and #Quantagenomics projects, and under the PhD grant attributed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Click here!
  July 19, 2024
  

• ICTON Bari, Italy

  Nelson J. Muga and Nuno Silva from the Universidade de Aveiro and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal, shared advancements from the QuantaGenomics project, QuantERA ERA-NET, on quantum computing for genomic medicine.
  July 18, 2024
  

• General Assembly

  The 4th General Assembly of the QuantaGENOMICS project took place in Lisbon, at LISPOLIS. Click here!
  June 20, 2024
  

• Distinguished Abstract Award

  Joana Cardoso (Founder and CSO at Ophimics), Bio/Medtech R&D researcher, obtained a distinguished abstract award at the 16th World Conference “Esophagus 2024” in Strasbourg.
  April 26, 2024
  

• Participation in “90 segundos de ciência” podcast - RTP (portugal)

  Nelson Muga, senior researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações - Aveiro (Portugal), participated in the "90 Segundos de Ciência" podcast. The project QuantaGenomics, and the activities that have been done with the consortium members were presented, using quantum technologies to develop and support secure multi-agent computing systems. Click here to listen to the podcast.
  February 27, 2024

• General Assembly

  The 3rd General Assembly of QuantaGenomics took place in Barcelona.
  November 13, 2023

• New Partner

  The QuantaGenomics consortium welcome to its new partner Ophiomics.
  November 1, 2023

• Workshop on Quantum Communications

  Two of QuantaGENOMICS' members, Instituto de Telecomunicações and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, co-organized the 3rd workshop on Quantum Communications, co-located with the International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2023), which took place in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.
  July 2nd to 6th, 2023
  

• General Assembly

  The 2nd General Assembly of QuantaGenomics took place in Paris.
  June 8, 2023

• Quantum Tech Day

  March 13, took place "Quantum Tech Day: the present and future of quantum technologies", organized by Quantum Communications Group (Instituto de Telecomunicações - Aveiro).This event is integrated with the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Informatics (DETI Universidade de Aveiro). This workshop was attended by the Secretary of State for Digitization and Administrative Modernization Mário Campolargo and the Director General of GNS Almirante Gameiro Marques.
  March 13, 2023
  

• General Assembly

  Organized by the project coordinator, Instituto de Telecomunicações, the first in-person QuantaGenomics General Assembly was held on 22nd December 2022 and took place in Aveiro, at IT - Aveiro University, and was attended by the majority of the partners (IT, SU, CBR, ICFO, and UPM). The event aimed to join teammates and partners to discuss the running tasks and activities, in addition to defining the following steps according to the work plan for each stage. Prof. Armando Pinto and Nelson Muga chaired the session that had several presentations, distributed over the different work packages: Nelson Muga, IT – WP1; Verena Yacoub, SU – WP2; Paula Alonso, ICFO, and Sara Mantey, IT – WP3; Laura Ortiz, UPM – WP4; Mário Grãos, CBR – WP5. During the session, it was possible to bring the results of the work is being done since the beginning of the project. The representatives had the opportunity to share with their colleagues the work status, discuss new ideas, and plan further steps.
  December 22, 2022
  

• QKD days in Madrid

  Sponsored by the QuantaGENOMICS’ partner Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, in collaboration with the Austrian Institute of Technology, and Telefónica, the event "QKD days in Madrid", hosting the latest meeting of the OPENQKD project , brought together leading QKD experts, as well as European equipment suppliers and policymakers on 14 and 15 December 2022. The event was an opportunity to join contributions from companies, universities, and researchers from 38 members of a European consortium of the Quantum Flagship to pave the way towards a pan-European infrastructure for secure quantum communication (QKD, Quantum Key Distribution, cryptographic networks).
  May 1, 2022
  

• Award at QuantERA Conference

  The QuantaGenomics won the QuantERA Short Video Contest Quantera Strategic Conference.
  September 22, 2022
  

• Quantera Strategic Conference

  The QuantaGenomics Project was presented at the Quantera Strategic Conference.
  September 20, 2022
  

• QuantaGenomics Project

  The QuantERA Consortium is pleased to announce that the QuantaGenomics project was considered for fundingu in 2021 call for Applied Quantum Science (AQS).
  May 1, 2022