Alberto Peruzzo

Alberto Peruzzo is a quantum photonics researcher who worked at the Centre for Quantum Photonics at the University of Bristol, where he held the post of Research Assistant and in 2012 received a Faculty of Science Postgraduate Commendation for his PhD thesis, Quantum Information Science in Integrated Photonics Technology. He later led a research team at RMIT University in Australia, where he is named as a Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology and as Director of the Quantum Photonics Laboratory. In 2018 his RMIT team reported in Science Advances that quantum information could be encoded, processed and transferred at a distance using topological circuits on a photonic chip, a result he said opens the way to topologically robust quantum processing in integrated photonics. His work places him among the researchers who build the physical hardware on which quantum computation is carried out.