We are delighted to announce that Roberto Morandotti, has been chosen as the IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award.
For pioneering entanglement generation and the processing of complex quantum states in photonic devices and systems.
Roberto Morandotti, Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Energy Materials and Telecommunications Department at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), received his M.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Genova in 1993 and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Glasgow in 1999. He then carried out postdoctoral research at the Weizmann Institute of Science and later at the University of Toronto. Since 2003, he has been affiliated with the INRS Energy, Materials, and Telecommunications. His current research interests include integrated quantum optics, focusing on the realization and characterization of complex quantum states, as well as photonics machine learning and applied Terahertz science. Roberto Morandotti is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the AAAS, of the IEEE, of the APS, of the Optica, of the SPIE, and an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow (2011), a recipient of the NSERC Synergy (2019) and Brockhouse (2020) Awards, of the Prix Marie-Victorin (2022) and the Prix ACFAS Urgel-Archambault (2023), as well as of the Leadership in Research Award of the University of Quebec (2024), among others. He served as a Chair and Technical Committee Member for several Optica, IEEE, and SPIE-sponsored meetings, and was recognized as an exceptional Mentor by both the Canadian Association for Graduate Students (2018) and the INRS (2024).
