Summer Course on Quantum Technologies

Ikerbasque Research Professor at Donostia International Physics Center, DIPC, and distinguished researcher at the University of the Basque Country, where he leads the Nanophotonics Theory Group.  Javier Aizpurua gained his doctorate in Physics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 1998 for work on the interaction of rapid electrons and nanostructures. After his pre-doctoral stage, he spent two periods as a post-doctoral researcher, one at Chalmers Technology University in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the other at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In 2004, Aizpurua joined DIPC, the Donostia International Physics Center, as a research fellow, starting to train a nanophotonics group. In 2008 he was awarded a permanent scientific place at the CSIC, taking responsibility for the photonics line of research at CFM, the Materials Physics Centre in San Sebastián, where he worked until 2023. From this year on, he joined Ikerbasque. He obtained the Euskadi Research award 2022, and is currently the director of the strategy Basque Quantum.

He is director of Euskampus Fundazioa, founded in 2011 by the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Tecnalia Corporation and the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC). He worked as assistant professor in the Faculty of Sciences of the UPV/EHU, international projects manager in Gamesa Energy, researcher and project manager at LABEIN- Tecnalia, project and outreach manager in the Nanoscience Cooperative Research Center- nanoGUNE, manager of the nanoBasque Strategy in the Basque Business Development Agency- SPRI, and director of DeustoTech. He holds a PhD in Physics from UPV/EHU, and a master degree in journalism and science communication from the Spanish Open University. He is the author of more than 70 international scientific publications indexed in the Web of knowledge,and author of 3 international patents. He has been awarded as one of the word-leading “Boundary Spanners” for University Business Cooperation by the University Industry Innovation Network.

Eduardo Jacob holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering and is Full Professor of Telematics Engineering at Communications Engineering Department of the UPV/EHU. He also leads a Basque Government grade "A" consolidated Research Group. He has been working on 5G/6G, cybersecurity, and research infrastructures. The last one, named SmartNetworks for Everything", is part of the European ESFRI infrastructure, SLICES. This infrastructure is becoming a Quantum Communication Infrastructure with 4 different QKD technologies. As a result of the IKUR funded projet SareQuant he is currently carrying out the redesign of the Basque National Research and Education Network (i2Basque). He is also leading the design of the future Province of Bizkay Quantum Communication Infrastructure. Additionally we works on the use of quantum technologies like QKD to secure telecommunication networks.