Eleni Diamanti is interviewed by Optics and Photonics News journalist Stewart Wills on the new European initiative aimed at to making Europe a powerhouse on the emerging global landscape of quantum technology.

Eleni Diamanti is a CNRS researcher at the LIP6 laboratory, at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. Her research focuses on quantum cryptography and on the development of photonic resources for quantum networks, and aims at the demonstration of a provable quantum advantage in security or communication efficiency with respect to classical resources. Her work in CV-QKD has led to the first commercial product employing this technology. She has also pioneered work in the practical implementation of quantum cryptographic protocols beyond QKD. She is the vice director of the Paris Centre for Quantum Computing, steering committee member of the French and Ile-de-France region networks on Quantum Technologies, and elected member of the Board of Stakeholders of the European Commission Public Private Partnership in Photonics. She also serves as an Associate Editor for Science Advances and IOP Quantum Science and Technology. Her research has been supported by many national and international grants, and was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. She has co-authored more than 60 papers in peer reviewed journals and has given more than 60 invited talks in international conferences and workshops.

Link to the interview