New IFAE member

New member in the QCT Group

Elia Bertoldo has just joined the QCT group as Postdoc.

Elia got his Bachelor and Master’s degrees at the University of Milano Bicocca. He did his PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich.

His thesis work focused on the development of new low temperature detectors to extend the physics reach of CRESST, a direct detection experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy)

Welcome, Elia!

Latest Group News

Project Milestone

Qilimanjaro contributes to new quantum computing milestone at BSC

May 28, 2026

Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, the spin-off of IFAE, BSC and UB has contributed to the deployment at BSC of a system constituted by a new 35-qubit quantum computer, along with another 20-qubit quantum computer for uninterrupted operation, with Manel Martínez acting as Project Leader within the Qilimanjaro-GMV consortium.

New publication

New publication by the QCT group

April 8, 2026

Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Superconducting Nitridized Aluminum Thin Films

Results

Closing event of the Quantum Communications Complementary Plan

November 27, 2025

ICFO hosted the closing event of the Plan Complementario de Comunicaciones Cuánticas, presenting the project’s results and new infrastructure developments in quantum communications.