Eleni Diamanti
CNRS
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- Biography
- Eleni Diamanti is a research director at the CNRS at the LIP6 laboratory at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She obtained her PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2006 and was a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Optics Graduate School in Palaiseau before joining the CNRS in 2009. Her research focuses on experimental quantum cryptography and communication, as well as the development of photonic resources and applications for quantum networks. She has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council, is Director of the Paris Quantum Technologies Centre, and was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal and Innovation Medal in 2024. She is also vice-chair of the flagship strategic advisory board of European Quantum Technologies and co-founder and scientific advisor to the start-up Welinq, which specialises in quantum interconnection technology.