John van de Wetering receives the Veni grant
The Dutch Science Council (NWO) has awarded Veni grants of up to 320,000 euro per project to 20 promising UvA and Amsterdam UMC researchers. One of the recipients of the Veni is QuSoft researcher John van de Wetering, who won the grant on his project A diagrammatic toolbox for quantum circuit simulation.
Ludovico Lami receives the ERC Starting Grant
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Starting Grants to three UvA researchers. They are physicist Ludovico Lami, legal scholar Dilek Kurban and computer scientist Dimitris Tzionas. The Starting Grant is a personal subsidy of approximately 1.5 million euros per project. The subsidy offers talented scientists five years of support for their research. Ludovico […]
Gravity Grant for challenges in Cyber Security to Christian Schaffner and others
Cyber security is often portrayed as an educational problem or a resource problem, shifting blame on users, system administrators, or the budget holders limiting the system administrators’ abilities. However, there are many hard problems that remain unsolved and that require a coordinated scientific investigation. The “Challenges in Cyber Security” project brings together top researchers from […]
Florian Schreck wins Physica Prize
The 2024 Physica Prize was awarded to UvA-IoP and QuSoft researcher Florian Schreck. Schreck receives the prize for his work on Bose Einstein condensates and their applications, such as building a coherent and continuous atom laser. The prize will be awarded during the annual FYSICA conference in Eindhoven on 12 April.
Three QuSoft research projects won Quantum Delta NL award
The National Growth Fund program Quantum Technology, carried out by NWO in collaboration with Quantum Delta NL, Actionline 1 ‘Research & Innovation’, has awarded 10.4 million euros to projects with the theme of quantum innovation: quantum sensing applications, quantum computing, and quantum networking.
Ten QuSoft papers were accepted at the Quantum Information Processing 2024 conference!
The Quantum Information Processing 2024 conference is one of the most important appointments for the theory and software side quantum science and technology.
Congratulation to Pietro Richelli for his QuSoft Master Certificate
Since 2021, QuSoft offers a certificate for MSc students at the University of Amsterdam that have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to quantum information science and have carried out their MSc thesis research project at QuSoft. Requirments for obtaining the certificate are: – Successful completion of three courses coming from at least two categories (see below). – […]
Large grant awarded to Quantum Application Lab
Quantum Application Lab has received the generous support of Quantum Delta NL to develop several projects within the next few years. QAL has been granted 600k euros to co-finance five new projects in the next years.
First Quantum Delta NL Award for Stacey Jeffery and Julia Cramer
The first ever Quantum Delta NL Award was won by Stacey Jeffery (CWI and QuSoft) and Julia Cramer (Leiden University) for founding and developing WIQD – Women In Quantum Development.
Large NWA grant for research into the social impact of quantum secure cryptography
16 May 2022, source UvA The arrival of quantum computers will have major societal consequences, especially in the field of cybersecurity. A new consortium led by Sebastian De Haro of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, the Institute of Physics of the University of Amsterdam and QuSoft has received a grant of over 900,000 […]
