QIQO links researchers from Instituto de Telecomunicações and IPFN with students and collaborators working across quantum information, quantum optics, cold atoms and quantum technologies.
Instituto de Telecomunicações · Instituto Superior Técnico
Quantum information, foundations, quantum communication, photonic platforms and optical quantum memories.
ISEL · GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Técnico
Quantum matter, ultracold gases, quantum fluids and plasmas, quantum simulation and many-body physics.
QuLab / IT
Quantum communication, quantum cryptography and quantum/quantum-inspired information processing.
QuLab / IT
Quantum foundations, Bell nonlocality, entanglement and applications of nonclassical correlations.
QuLab / IT
Quantum information, nonlocal games, contextuality, quantum cryptography and quantum correlations.
QuLab / IT · Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro
Quantum receivers for advanced quantum communication; free-space and space quantum links.
QuLab / IT · Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro
High-dimensional quantum states of light for efficient quantum communication.
QuLab / IT · Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro
Optical quantum memories, Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), and applications to quantum communication and security.
QuMatt/MOTLab / GoLP-IPFN · Hugo Terças
Quantum kinetic theory of light–matter interaction in plasmas, semiconductors and cold systems.
QuMatt/MOTLab / IST · Hugo Terças
Plasmonic metamaterials and low-energy particle detection, including WIMP/neutrino sensing concepts.
QuLab / IST
Quantum and quantum-inspired neural networks for pattern recognition.
QuLab / IST
Implementation of Pretty Good Measurements on Quantum Computer via Petz Recovery Channel.
QuLab / IST
Optical quantum memories based on gases of Alkali atoms.
QuLab / IST · Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro · Sep 2025–Nov 2026
Generating entangled photon pairs for spaceborne quantum communication.
QuLab / IST
Generating entangled photon pairs for quantum communication.
QuLab / Universidade de Coimbra
Quantum memory for photons using Rubidium vapour.
QuLab / IST
Experimental quantum communication.
The Steering Board provides scientific and institutional guidance across QIQO's quantum information, photonics, plasma and quantum-matter activities.
Instituto Superior Técnico · IPFN
Relativistic plasma physics, plasma-based accelerators, intense radiation sources, extreme astrophysical plasmas and large-scale particle-in-cell simulation.
Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear · Instituto Superior Técnico
Fusion plasma diagnostics, real-time control, turbulence, data acquisition and engineering integration for large fusion experiments.
Instituto de Telecomunicações (Lisbon) · Instituto Superior Técnico
Director of the Lisbon branch of Instituto de Telecomunicações and Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico. Research in photonics, optical communications, sensing and quantum-enabled communication technologies.
QuLab / IST
Photonic physical unclonable functions for cryptographic key generation.
IST · Supervised by Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro
Generating entangled photon pairs compatible with atomic transitions.
IST · Supervised by Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro and Pedro Ricardo Neto Mendes
Space-based high-speed quantum communication.
IST · Supervised by Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro and Hugo Terças
Bell correlations and optical quantum memory for nobles-gas nuclear spins.
IST · Supervised by Paulo André; co-supervised by Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro
High-Speed Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution.
IST · Supervised by Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro
NMR Quantum Information Processing on liquid Chloroform and Continuous-Time Quantum Walks on Squares.
IST · Supervised by Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro
Mechanical design for satellite quantum communication.