Professor Francesco Petruccione

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Prof Francesco Petruccione

Professor Francesco Petruccione

Francesco Petruccione, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, was awarded an innovation Fund grant in 2005 to set up a Centre for Quantum Technology and in 2007 was granted the South African Research Chair for Quantum Information Processing and Communication.

Petruccione has been working on the theory of open quantum systems, which is at the basis of many recent quantum technological applications.