Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Zaki Leghtas has obtained an ERC starting grant in pannel PE3 entitled ECLIPSE (Exotic superconducting CIrcuits to probe and protect quantum States of light and mattEr).

• Our team (Zaki Leghtas and Mazyar Mirrahimi) has obtained a european QUANTERA grant entitled QuCOS (Quantum Computation with Schrödinger cat states).

• Philippe Campagne-Ibarcq was hired as a CRCN Inria in the QUANTIC team.

• Zaki Leghtas was an invited speaker of American Physical Society March Meeting in Boston, USA.

• Pierre Rouchon was a semi-plenary speaker at the IFAC Mechatronics and NOLCOS conference, September 4-6, Vienna, Austria.

• Successful PhD defense of Gerardo Cardona, under the direction of P. Rouchon and A. Sarlette.

• Successful PhD defense of Lucas Verney, under the direction of M. Mirrahimi and Z. Leghtas.

• Successful PhD defense of Zhifei Zhang, under the direction of A. Sarlette at Ghent University.