I am a Master’s student in Quantum Engineering at ETH Zürich, currently based in Cambridge, MA, where I am conducting my Master’s Thesis at MIT. My research focuses on the intersection of fundamental physics and engineering, specifically the development of fault-tolerant superconducting circuit architectures.
Originally from Trento, Italy, I began my academic path at Politecnico di Milano. While my background is in Engineering Physics, my focus shifted during a visiting semester at EPFL. There, lectures on QED and Quantum Computing by Prof. Kippenberg and Prof. Savona introduced me to the elegance of superconducting circuits. I was captivated by the potential to control macroscopic electric circuits at the quantum level, a realization that led me to ETH Zürich to pursue Quantum Engineering.
My work is defined by a hands-on approach to scaling quantum hardware. At ETH Zürich (QuDev), I worked in Prof. Andreas Wallraff’s group to upgrade the control infrastructure for a 43-qubit chip, aimed at demonstrating logical qubit entanglement for the IARPA ELQ program. This involved everything from physical cryostat integration to rewriting the triggering paradigms in the PyQED software library.
To broaden my perspective on error correction, I joined Alice & Bob in Paris. As an intern, I worked on the calibration and optimization of Cat-Qubits, gaining insight into the industrial approach to fault tolerance. Currently, I am a Master Thesis student at MIT (EQuS) in Prof. William Oliver’s group. Here, I am leading efforts within the Bosonic team to develop GKP qubits in planar superconducting resonators, designing and characterizing two-qubit gate protocols.
Beyond Quantum I maintain a strong interest in high-performance computing, stemming from my time at EnginSoft, where I optimized CFD simulations using FPGA accelerators at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre.