Steering Committee

Committee Chairs

• Sir Peter Knight (co-Chair)
  Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College London; Chair, Quantum Metrology Institute, UK National Physical Laboratory; Chair, National Quantum Technology Programme Strategic Advisory Board; Optica

• Rosario Fazio (co-Chair)
  Head, Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Section at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP); Director, Trieste Institute for Quantum Technologies (TQT)

Committee Members

• Aba Andam
  Fellow, and Past President, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences

• Louis Barson
  Director of Science, Innovation and Skills, IOP

• Hyoung Joon Choi
  Professor, Department of Physics, Yonsei University; President, Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS)

• Silvina Ponce Dawson
  Professor, University of Buenos Aires & Higher Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina; President Designate, IUPAP

• John Doyle
  Henry B. Silsbee Professor of Physics, Harvard University; President-Elect, American Physical Society (APS)

• Emily Edwards
  Associate Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University; co-leader, US National Q-12 Education Partnership

• Jonathan Felbinger
  Deputy Director, Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)

• Andrew Forbes
  Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg

• Bo Gu
  Founder/President/CTO at Bos Photonics

• Taeghwan Hyeon (현택환)
  Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Director, Center for Nanoparticle Research, Institute for Basic Science, Seoul National University

• Amal Kasry
  Chief of Section for Basic Science, Research, Innovation and Engineering, UNESCO

• Claus Lämmerzahl
  Professor and Director for Space Sciences, Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) at the University of Bremen; Board Member for Public Relations, German Physical Society (DPG)

• Gillian Makamara
  Project Officer, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Julio G. Mendoza-Álvarez
  Professor, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN); President, Mexican Physical Society

• Joseph Niemela
  Emeritus Scientist, International Center of Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

• Yasser Omar
  Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon; President, Portuguese Quantum Institute (PQI); EU Quantum Flagship, Co-founder of World Quantum Day – 14 April.

• Peggy Oti-Boateng
  Executive Director, African Academy of Sciences

• Enrica Porcari
  Head Of Information Technology Department, CERN

• Kent Rochford
  CEO and Executive Director, SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics

• María Sánchez-Colina
  President, Iberoamerican Federation of Societies of Physics (FEIASOFI); President, Cuban Society of Physics

• Smitha Vishveshwara
  Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Carl Wieman
  Professor of Physics and of the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University

• Ahmed Younes
  Professor of Quantum Computing, Alexandria University; Vice Dean of Education and Student Affairs, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University