Valerio Pruneri

Valerio Pruneri is an ICREA professor, president of the technological company specialized in materials Corning Inc. and head of group at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO). He has more than sixty patent families granted or pending, and has given a hundred lectures as a guest in the field of photonics and quantum technologies. Doctorate in 1996 from the University of Southampton, he currently coordinates the Quantum Secure Networks Association (QSNP) of the Quantum Flagship program of the European Commission. He is also coordinator of the EuroQCI Spain project of the European Quantum Communication Infrastructure. He has developed technologies for quantum random name generation and quantum key distribution, currently marketed by Quside and Luxquanta, respectively.