Curriculum vitae of Chiara Macchiavello

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1 Curriculum vitae of Chiara Macchiavello Born in Genova (Italy) on June 1st Laurea in Physics in 1991 cum laude and Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Pavia in Thesis in Quantum Optics ( Quantum amplification of electromagnetic radiation ). Supervisor: Prof. G.M. D Ariano. 1995/1996: Human Capital and Mobility Research Fellow at the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Prof. A. Ekert. 1996/1997: Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Prof. A. Ekert. Since 1998: permanent position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pavia. Referee of international scientific journals, such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review and Physics Letters. Editor, with G.M. Palma and A. Zeilinger, of the book Quantum computation and quantum information theory, World Scientific (2000), Bestselling Book of World Scientific. Member of the European Pathfinder Project in Quantum Computation in Member of the Editorial Board of Physical Review A in Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Quantum Information. Expert for the EC jury evaluating FET-Open short proposals. Scientist in charge for the Pavia node of the IST European Projects Entanglement in Quantum Information Processing and Communication (contract n. IST ), Quantum Properties of Distributed Systems (contract n. IST ) and Development of a global network for secure communication based on quantum cryptography (contract n. IST ). Involved in the following national and international research projects: TMR European network on The physics of quantum information ; European Science Foundation PESC Scientific Programme Quantum Information and Quantum Computation ( ); Advanced national Research Projects INFM Generation and detection of quantum mesoscopic surpositions in parametric media (CAT) ( ) and Quantum Teleportation and Quantum Cloning by the Optical Parametric Squeezing Process (CLON) (2002-); National projects MIUR: Amplification and Detection of Quantum Information ( ), Quantum Information Transmission and Processing: Quantum Teleportation and Error Correction ( ) and Entanglement Assisted High Precision Measurements ( ).

2 Organiser of the series of lectures New frontiers of physics at Collegio Nuovo in Pavia in Organiser, with G.M. Palma, of the International Summer School on Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Theory, Fondazione ISI, Villa Gualino, Torino, Italy, July Director, with S.F. Huelga, G.M. Palma and M. Plenio, of the international conference Advances in quantum information processing: from theory to experiments, Erice, Italy, March Invited to chair/introduce the session Generic theory at the Forth European Quantum Information Processing and Communications Workshop, Oxford, July Director, with A. Ekert, R. Fazio and G.M. Palma, of the International Workshop on Quantum entanglement in physical and information sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, December Invited as a visiting scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA for two weeks in April 1997 (by Dr. C.H. Bennett), at the University of Innsbruck for one week in May 1998 (by Prof. J.I. Cirac), at the Technion-Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa for two weeks in February 2000 (by Prof. A. Peres), and at the National University of Singapore for two weeks in February 2003 (by Prof. B.-G. Englert). Teaching activity Supervisor of four laurea theses. Supervisor of the post doc activity of Shashank Virmani (2001/2002) and Helle Bechmann Pasquinucci (since May 2004). Series of seminars Quantum computers and cryptography for Ph.D. Students in Lectures in Quantum Optics for undergraduate students, 1999/2000. Lectures on Quantum error correction at the International School of Physics Enrico Fermi on Experimental quantum information, in Varenna, Italy, July Lectures on Decoherence and quantum error correction at the International School on Quantum Computation and Information, Lisbon, 2-7 September Lectures on Quantum Information at the National School on Physics of Matter, Torino, Italy, 8-21 September Lectures on Quantum error correction at the WES Summer School on Fundamentals of Quantum Information Processing, Wittenberg (Germany), 20 July-2 August Full course on Quantum Optics for undergraduate students in Pavia in 2002/2003.

3 Full course on Quantum physics of computation for undergraduate students in Pavia in 2003/2004 and 2004/2005. Scientific activity Research interests: quantum optics, quantum information theory, quantum computation, quantum cryptography, quantum mechanics. Main scientific collaborations: G.M. Palma (University of Milan), F. De Martini (University of Rome La Sapienza ), R. Fazio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), A. Ekert (University of Cambridge), D. Bruss (University of Hannover), M. Plenio (Imperial College, London), B.-G. Englert and D. Kaszlikowski (University of Singapore), M. Mosca (Waterloo, Perimeter Institute), N. Cerf (University of Brussels), M. Lewenstein and A. Sanpera (UNiveristy of Barcelona). Invited talks 1. Amplification beyond the standard quantum noise limit, International workshop on Nonclassical Light and Quantum Tomography, 27 January 1995, University of Camerino, Italy. 2. Amplificazione e rivelazione della radiazione, Congress on theoretical physics and structure of matter, 8-11 April 1995, Fai della Paganella, Italy. 3. Quantum networks for symmetrisation, Working conference on quantum optics and quantum computation, June 1995, Scuola Normale di Pisa, Italy 4. Quantum networks for symmetrisation,, International workshop on quantum computation, 26 June-6 July 1995, Torino, Italy. 5. Quantum gates, quantum networks and cryptography, International Workshop on Quantum Interferometry II, 4-8 March 1996, Trieste, Italy. 6. Security of quantum cryptography over noisy channels, Mini-meeting on quantum mechanics, 1 April 1996, Imperial College, London. 7. Quantum cryptography with entangled states, Quantum computers and quantum coherence workshop, 3-14 December 1996, Santa Barbara, California. 8. On the improvement of frequency standards with quantum entanglement, Second working conference on quantum optics and quantum computation, June 1997, Scuola Normale di Pisa. 9. On the improvement of frequency standards with quantum entanglement, International workshop on quantum computation, 29 June-17 July 1997, Torino, Italy.

4 10. Quantum entanglement and frequency standards, Tutorial workshop on quantum information, October 1997, Almagro (Ciudad Real), Spain. 11. Gate logici e computer quantistici, 20 January 1998, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. 12. Campioni di frequenza con entanglement quantistico, 12 February 1998, Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris, Torino, Italy. 13. Ottica quantistica: teletrasporto e crittografia, 5 March 1998, Collegio Nuovo, Pavia, Italy. 14. Quantum algorithms and phase estimation, Workshop on quantum computation and mesoscopic physics, June 1998, Scuola Normale di Pisa, Italy. 15. Decoherence and quantum error correction in frequency standards, Fourth International Conference on Quantum Communications, Measurement and Computing, August 1998, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. 16. Quantum logic gates, Pathfinder Conference on Quantum Computing, September 1998, Helsinki. 17. Comunicare in segretezza: recenti progressi in crittografia quantistica, Istituto Lombardo - Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, 28 October 1998, Milan, Italy. 18. Quantum cloning and state estimation, International Workshop on Quantum Interferometry III, 1-5 March 1999, Trieste, Italy. 19. Nuova informatica e nuovi calcolatori quantistici, 11 March 1999, Collegio S. Caterina da Siena, Pavia, in the lectures series Mathematics, computers and nature. 20. Orologi atomici e correlazioni quantistiche, 18 March 1999, University of Palermo, Italy. 21. Quantum cloning and state estimation, Sixth International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations, May 1999, Naples, Italy. 22. Entanglement in quantum information processing, INFM Meeting, June 1999, Catania, Italy 23. Entanglement in quantum information theory, Workshop on Logic and Physics of Computation, International School of Mathematics G. Stampacchia, Ettore Majorana Centre for Physics, Erice, Italy, 28 July-1 August Entanglement in quantum information theory and communication, 17 February 2000, Technion-Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

5 25. Quantum cloning and superluminal communication, Symposium on quantum information theory, 21 February 2000, Technion-Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. 26. Nuova informatica quantistica, 12 April 2000, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy. 27. Cloning in quantum mechanics, Fifteenth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, April 2000, Vienna. 28. Cloning of quantum states, International workshop on quantum computation and learning, May 2000, Sundbyholms Slott, Sweden. 29. Clonazione quantistica, 5 June 2000, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. 30. Entanglement in communications over noisy channels, CLEO/Europe-EQEC Focus Meeting 2001, June 2001, Munich, Germany. 31. Entanglement nella teoria quantistica dell informazione, 29 November 2001, University of Milan, Italy. 32. Information transmission over noisy channels using entangled states, International Workshop on Quantum Entropies: Dynamics and Information, December 2001, SISSA, Trieste, Italy. 33. Entanglement enhanced information transmission over quantum channels with correlated noise, 18 February 2002, University of Trento, Italy. 34. Entanglement enhanced information transmission over quantum channels with correlated noise, IV Adriatico Research conference on Quantum Interferometry, March 2002, Trieste, Italy. 35. Entanglement in communications over noisy channels, EURESCO Conference on Quantum Information: Quantum Entanglement, San Feliu de Guixols, Spain, March Security of quantum cryptography with three-dimensional systems, International Conference on Quantum Information: Conceptual Foundations, Developments and Perspectives, Oviedo, Spain, July Communication and detection of entanglement over noisy channels, Third European Quantum Information Processing and Communication Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, September Quantum communication and quantum error correction, 29 January 2003, University of Camerino, Italy.

6 39. Communications over noisy channels with entangled states, Workshop on Recent advances in foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum information, Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris, Torino, 19 May Nuovi aspetti dell informatica quantistica, Istituto Lombardo - Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, 26 June 2003, Milan, Italy. 41. Entanglement and quantum information, Second international conference on frontier science A non-linear world: the real world, 8-12 September 2003, Pavia, Italy. 42. Information transmission with quantum systems, LXXXIX National Congress of the Italian Physical Society, September 2003, Parma, Italy. 43. Communications in the presence of noise: the role of entanglement, Workshop on Fault tolerance, stability and control in quantum information processing, October 2003, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy. 44. Optimal phase estimation and economical phase covariant cloning in arbitrary dimension, Fifth European Quantum Information Processing and Communication Workshop, September 2004, Roma La Sapienza, Italy. 45. Optimal phase covariant transformations in arbitrary dimension, Meeting on entanglement and decoherence: mathematics and physics of quantum information and computation, January 2005, Oberwolfach, Germany. 46. Optimal quantum transformations in arbitrary dimension and for qubit mixed states, 8 June 2005, University of Cambridge.