Partner Labs

Team leader Institution
Partner 1 Nicolas Cerf ULB-QuIC Project Coordinator
Partner 2 Hugo Thienpont VUB-TONA B-PHOT
Partner 3 Yves Roggeman ULB-QualSec


(Partner Labs of Phase I you can find here.)


Partner 1

Centre for Quantum Information and Communication

Contact

Coordinator Prof. Dr. Nicolas Cerf
Institution Université Libre de Bruxelles
Partner Lab Centre for Quantum Information and Communication (ULB-QuIC)
Address Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Phone & Fax +32 2 650 28 58 (Fax: +32 2 650 29 41)

People

  • Nicolas Cerf (Professor) Head of the Centre for Quantum Information and Communication (QuIC). Quantum Information Theory, Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Mechanics, Monte-Carlo methods.
  • Evgueni Karpov (Senior Post-Doctoral fellow) Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Information, Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics, Polymer Physics.
  • Julien Niset (Post-Doctoral Fellow) Quantum Information Theory, Quantum key distribution, Quantum non-locality.
  • Ludovic Arnaud (Post-Doctoral Fellow) Quantum information, quantum interference and entanglement.Random quantum circuit and random matrix theory. Links between quantum information and other fields of physics. Foundation of quantum mechanics.

Partner 2

Vakgroep Toegepaste Natuurkunde & Fotonica

Contact

Coordinator Prof. Dr. Hugo Thienpont
Institution Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Partner Lab Vakgroep Toegepaste Natuurkunde & Fotonica (VUB-TONA B-PHOT)
Address Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Phone & Fax +32 2 791 68 52 (Fax: +32 2 629 34 50)

People

  • Hugo Thienpont (Professor) Head of B-PHOT, micro-potonics, micro-optics, optical interconnections on the chip level, polarization switching in VCSELS, micro-structured optical fibers for optical sensing.
  • Irina Veretennicoff (Professor Emeritus) Team leader in CRYPTASC I, co-promoteur in CRYPTASC II. Non-linear and Quantum Optics, Laser dynamics, Non-linear Plasma physics.
  • Thomas Durt (Assistant professor) Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Cryptography, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics.
  • Krassimir Panayotov (Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow) Lasers, non-linear optics, VCSELS.
  • Frederik Vanden Berghe (PhD student) Software toolbox for monitoring the quality of random number generation.

Partner 3

Qualité et sécurité des systèmes informatiques

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Contact

Coordinator Prof. Dr. Yves Roggeman
Institution Université Libre de Bruxelles
Partner Lab Qualité et sécurité des systèmes informatiques (ULB-QualSec)
Address Boulevard du Triomphe CP212, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Phone & Fax +32 2 650 55 98 (Fax: +32 2 650 56 09)

People

  • Yves Roggeman (Professor) Head of the Cryptography and Computer Security Service (SCSI). Computer security (banking systems), cryptography (stream ciphers, random numbers generators), programming languages (object oriented programming languages).
  • Olivier Markowitch (Associate Professor) Information security advisor (“conseiller en sécurité de l'information”) for the University, Computer security (banking systems, e-payments, secure email schemes), secure protocols (fair exchange, non-repudiation, certified email, electronic voting, digital contract signing), cryptography (digital signatures). Advisor and co-advisor of PhD and Ms theses.
  • Rachel Akimana (PhD student) Computing grid security, computing grid secure protocols.
  • Jérôme Dossogne (PhD student) Secure e-government.
  • Naim Qachri (PhD student) Secure wireless transmissions.
  • Liran Lerman (PhD student) Secure protocols.