Marco Baioletti

University of Perugia

Marco Baioletti is an associate professor of Computer Science in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Perugia. His research focuses on combinatorial optimisation using metaheuristics, the treatment of uncertainty in artificial intelligence, and quantum computing. In the latter area he is particularly interested in quantum circuit compilation, variational algorithms for combinatorial optimisation, and applications of quantum annealing to information-representation problems (argumentation) and optimisation.

Luca Della Penna

University of Perugia

Luca Della Penna is a PhD student in Physics of Fundamental Interactions at the University of Perugia's Department of Physics and a member of the CMS collaboration at CERN. During his PhD, he has worked on charm physics, performing cross-section measurements, studying Vector Boson Scattering processes in the semileptonic final state, and developing algorithms for the extraction of the polarization of heavy vector bosons (W and Z). He has also contributed to the CMS detector upgrade activities, with a particular focus on the Outer Tracker.

Maria Cristina Diamantini

University of Perugia

Maria Cristina Diamantini is a theoretical physicist at the University of Perugia. After receiving a Humboldt Fellowship at the Free University of Berlin under the supervision of Hagen Kleinert, she was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation fellowship, which led her to conduct research at the University of Oxford and at CERN. Her research focuses on quantum field theory, topological phases of matter, superconductivity and superinsulation. She has also contributed to the development of quantum associative memory models and is currently investigating quantum simulation and quantum computing approaches to lattice gauge theories and topological quantum systems.

Fabrizio Fagiolo

University for Foreigners of Perugia

Fabrizio Fagiolo is a PhD student in Frontier Sciences in Sustainability at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. His research in Quantum Computing focuses on the development of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems. He has conducted research at the University of Perugia and the National Research Council (CNR).

Livio Fanò

University of Perugia, INFN Perugia

Livio Fanò is a Full Professor of Fundamental Interactions Physics at the Department of Physics and Geology of the University of Perugia. His research is carried out within the CMS experiment at CERN, focusing on Higgs boson physics. Within the QUANTA project, he works on the application of quantum algorithms and quantum machine learning to classification and data analysis problems typical of high-energy physics.

Mirko Mariotti

University of Perugia

Mirko Mariotti is a System Engineer at the Department of Physics and Geology of the University of Perugia, Italy, where he is responsible for the departmental ICT infrastructure. In 2016 he created the BondMachine project, a toolkit to build reconfigurable computer architectures targeting FPGA devices, awarded at the InnovateFPGA Global contest in 2018. One of the current research topics of the BondMachine project is the implementation of quantum computing simulators on FPGA devices.

Fabrizio Napolitano

University of Perugia

Fabrizion Napolitano is a Fixed-Term Researcher in the Department of Physics and Geology at the University of Perugia, where he works with the CMS Collaboration at CERN, focusing on (Quantum) Machine Learning algorithms for LHC data analysis. Previously, he held a postdoctoral research position (2020–2025) at the INFN National Laboratories of Frascati, where he worked on the spectroscopy of exotic atoms and the foundations of quantum mechanics. He obtained his PhD in Particle Physics from Heidelberg University in 2020, with a thesis on the search for dark matter using the ATLAS detector at the LHC.