giuliochiribella

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Giulio Chiribella is the director of QICI Quantum Information and Computation Initiative at the Computer Science Department of The University of Hong Kong. He is Professor of Computer Science at The University of Hong Kong, a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, a Visiting Fellow of St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. A physicist by training, he obtained his PhD in 2007 from the University of Pavia, Italy. He previously served as professor at the University of Oxford, and associate professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, where he was enrolled in 2012 as a member of the Young 1000 Talents Program of China. In 2010 he was awarded the Hermann Weyl Prize for applications of group theory in quantum information. Currently, he is member of the Standing Committee of the International Colloquia on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (ICGTMP), Member of the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi), and Fellow of the National Virgilian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts. His research interests are in quantum information and computation, in the foundations of quantum mechanics, and in new quantum technologies.