People

Quantum practices a strict separation of powers between the non-profit organization set up to support the journal, and the editorial process and handling of submissions in the journal itself.

The internal structure of Quantum consists of the steering and executive boards (which belong to the NGO), and the coordinating and regular editors (who serve on the editorial board of the journal).

All of the above are full-time researchers who volunteer their time for Quantum. In addition, Quantum has hired management assistants to help with the running of the journal. Last but not least, Quantum is always open to feedback and contributions from the wider quantum research community.

Steering Board

The members of the Steering Board provide long-term guidance for the journal, select editors, and hold the ultimate power of decision for all important aspects of the journal. Being honorary members of the non-profit organization backing Quantum, they hold the majority of voting rights. Consists of high-profile senior researchers, serving at least three-year terms.

Currently Quantum has 34 Steering Board members:

• Antonio Acín, ICFO, Spain (since 2022)
• Anne Broadbent, University of Ottawa, Canada (since 2016)
• Harry Buhrman, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (since 2016)
• Daniel Burgarth, Aberystwyth University, UK (since 2021)
• Guido Burkard, University of Konstanz, Germany (since 2021)
• Jens Eisert, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (since 2016)
• Steven Flammia, University of Sydney, Australia (since 2021)
• Cassandra Granade, Microsoft Research, USA (since 2022)
• Aram Harrow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (since 2021)
• Khabat Heshami, National Research Council of Canada, Canada (since 2021)
• Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh, UK (since 2021)
• Stacey Jeffery, CWI and QuSoft, Netherlands (since 2021)
• Shelby Kimmel, Middlebury College, USA (since 2021)
• Matthew Leifer, Chapman University, USA (since 2021)
• Debbie Leung, University of Waterloo, Canada (since 2016)
• Chaoyang Lu, University of Science and Technology of China, China (since 2016)
• Chiara Macchiavello, University of Pavia, Italy (since 2021)
• Milan Mosonyi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary (since 2021)
• Ahsan Nazir, University of Manchester, UK (since 2021)
• Román Orús, Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Spain (since 2021)
• Joseph M. Renes, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (since 2022)
• Ana Maria Rey, University of Colorado/NIST, USA (since 2016)
• Anna Sanpera, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain (since 2016)
• Jörg Schmiedmayer, VCQ and Atominstitut, TU-Wien, Austria (since 2021)
• Urbasi Sinha, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India (since 2016)
• John A. Smolin, IBM Research, USA (since 2021)
• Robert W. Spekkens, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada (since 2016)
• Aephraim M. Steinberg, University of Toronto, Canada (since 2021)
• Francesca Vidotto, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands (since 2021)
• Michael Walter, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (since 2021)
• Reinhard Werner, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany (since 2016)
• Birgitta Whaley, University of California, Berkeley, USA (since 2016)
• Andreas Winter, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain (since 2016)
• Karol Życzkowski, Jagiellonian University, Poland (since 2021)

Editorial Board

There are 87 researchers currently serving on the Editorial Board of Quantum.

Coordinating editors:

• Carlo Beenakker, Leiden University and Instituut-Lorentz, Netherlands (since 2016)
• Eric Cavalcanti, Griffith University, Australia (since 2016)
• Sevag Gharibian, University of Paderborn, Germany (since 2016)
• Ujjwal Sen, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India (since 2016)
• Witlef Wieczorek, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (since 2016)
• Ronald de Wolf, QuSoft, CWI, and University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (since 2018)

Editors:

• Elizabeth Agudelo, TU Wien, Austria (since 2023)
• Álvaro Alhambra, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany (since 2022)
• Anurag Anshu, Harvard University, USA (since 2022)
• Simon Apers, IRIF Université de Paris, France (since 2021)
• Srinivasan Arunachalam, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA (since 2021)
• Remigiusz Augusiak, Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland (since 2022)
• Miriam Backens, University of Birmingham, UK (since 2021)
• Kishor Bharti, QuICS, University of Maryland, USA (since 2022)
• Cyril Branciard, CNRS - Institut Néel, France (since 2023)
• Dan Browne, University College London, UK (since 2020)
• Earl Campbell, University of Sheffield, UK (since 2018)
• Michele Campisi, CNR Institute for Nanoscience, Italy (since 2023)
• Ángela Capel, Universität Tübingen, Germany (since 2022)
• Angelo Carollo, University of Palermo, Italy (since 2023)
• Marco Cerezo, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA (since 2022)
• Ulysse Chabaud, INRIA, France (since 2023)
• Francesco Ciccarello, University of Palermo & NEST Pisa, Italy (since 2023)
• Andrea Coladangelo, University of California, Berkeley, USA (since 2020)
• Ivan Contreras, Amherst College, USA (since 2022)
• Borivoje Dakic, University of Vienna, Austria (since 2022)
• Alexander Dalzell, AWS Center for Quantum Computing, USA (since 2023)
• Nicolas Delfosse, Microsoft, USA (since 2022)
• Abhinav Deshpande, Caltech, USA (since 2022)
• Yongshan Ding, Yale University, USA (since 2022)
• Vedran Dunjko, LIACS, Leiden University, Netherlands (since 2021)
• Philippe Faist, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (since 2023)
• Di Fang, University of California, Berkeley, USA (since 2023)
• Máté Farkas, ICFO, Spain (since 2023)
• Omar Fawzi, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France (since 2020)
• Nicolai Friis, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Austria (since 2021)
• Raúl García-Patrón, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (since 2019)
• Roohollah Ghobadi, University of Calgary, Canada (since 2022)
• Flaminia Giacomini, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (since 2023)
• Géza Giedke, Donostia International Physics Center, Spain (since 2020)
• Aaron Goldberg, National Research Council of Canada, Canada (since 2023)
• Daniel Grier, UC San Diego, USA (since 2023)
• Alex Grilo, CWI and QuSoft, Netherlands (since 2020)
• Tom Gur, University of Warwick, UK (since 2022)
• Alioscia Hamma, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA (since 2022)
• Jonas Helsen, CWI, QuSoft and Korteweg-de Vries Instituut U. Amsterdam, Netherlands (since 2021)
• Philipp Höhn, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (since 2021)
• Isaac Kim, University of Sydney, Australia (since 2020)
• Richard Küng, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Germany (since 2021)
• Felix Leditzky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (since 2022)
• Muyuan Li, IBM Research, USA (since 2023)
• Tongyang Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (since 2020)
• Jin-Peng Liu, UC Berkeley and MIT, USA (since 2023)
• Sam MacArdle, AWS Center for Quantum Computing, USA (since 2023)
• Tommaso Macrì, ITAMP-Harvard and Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil (since 2022)
• Laura Mančinska, UCPH, Denmark (since 2021)
• Olivia Di Matteo, The University of British Columbia, Canada (since 2022)
• Pérola Milman, CNRS / Uni. Paris Diderot, France (since 2021)
• Mark Mitchison, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (since 2022)
• Kavan Modi, Monash University, Australia (since 2020)
• Tomoyuki Morimae, Kyoto University, Japan (since 2020)
• Ion Nechita, CNRS and LPT Toulouse, France (since 2020)
• Bryan O'Gorman, IBM Research, USA (since 2022)
• Anna Pappa, TU Berlin, Germany (since 2021)
• Saverio Pascazio, University of Bari, Italy (since 2016)
• Matthew Pusey, University of York, UK (since 2021)
• Nicolás Quesada, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada (since 2022)
• Patrick Rebentrost, Centre for Quantum Technologies and Nat. Univ. Singapore, Singapore (since 2021)
• Ansis Rosmanis, Nagoya University, Japan (since 2022)
• Krishna Kumar Sabapathy, Xanadu, Canada (since 2022)
• Nitica Sakharwade, International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies, Gdansk, Poland (since 2023)
• Marcelo Santos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (since 2022)
• Mohan Sarovar, Sandia National Laboratories, USA (since 2020)
• Philipp Schindler, University of Innsbruck, Austria (since 2022)
• David Schmid, International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies, Gdansk, Poland (since 2022)
• Gael Sentís, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain (since 2023)
• Kunal Sharma, IBM Research, USA (since 2022)
• Himadri Shekhar Dhar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (since 2023)
• Jens Siewert, University of the Basque Country, Spain (since 2016)
• Paul Skrzypczyk, University of Bristol, UK (since 2019)
• André Stefanov, University of Bern, Switzerland (since 2018)
• Luca Tagliacozzo, University of Strathclyde, UK (since 2018)
• Jordi Tura, Leiden Institute of Physics (LION), Instituut-Lorentz, Netherlands (since 2021)
• Petros Wallden, University of Edinburgh, UK (since 2022)
• Xin Wang, Baidu Research (since 2020)
• Alexander Wilce, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, USA (since 2016)
• Magdalena Zych, University of Queensland, Australia (since 2018)

Former Editors:

• Antonio Acín, ICFO, Spain (2016 - 2021)
• Agata Branczyk, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics/University of Waterloo, Canada (2016 - 2018)
• Nicolas Brunner, University of Geneva, Switzerland (2016 - 2021)
• Daniel Burgarth, Aberystwyth University, UK (2016 - 2021)
• Guido Burkard, University of Konstanz, Germany (2016 - 2020)
• Gabriele De Chiara, Queen’s University Belfast, UK (2016 - 2019)
• Charles Clark, NIST, USA (2022 - 2022)
• Frédéric Dupuis, University of Montreal, Canada (2021 - 2022)
• Steven Flammia, University of Sydney, Australia (2016 - 2021)
• Ivette Fuentes, University of Vienna, Austria (2016 - 2018)
• Cassandra Granade, Microsoft Research, USA (2018 - 2021)
• Aram Harrow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (2016 - 2021)
• Khabat Heshami, National Research Council of Canada, Canada (2016 - 2021)
• Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh, UK (2016 - 2021)
• Stacey Jeffery, CWI and QuSoft, Netherlands (2016 - 2019)
• Fred Jendrzejewski, University of Heidelberg, Germany (2020 - 2022)
• Shelby Kimmel, Middlebury College, USA (2018 - 2020)
• Christian Kurtsiefer, Centre for Quantum Technologies and Nat. Univ. Singapore, Singapore (2016 - 2019)
• Matthew Leifer, Chapman University, USA (2016 - 2021)
• Anthony Leverrier, INRIA Paris, France (2018 - 2022)
• Chiara Macchiavello, University of Pavia, Italy (2016 - 2021)
• Ashley Montanaro, University of Bristol, UK (2016 - 2020)
• Milan Mosonyi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary (2016 - 2021)
• Ahsan Nazir, University of Manchester, UK (2016 - 2021)
• Román Orús, Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Spain (2016 - 2021)
• Maris Ozols, CWI, University of Amsterdam, and QuSoft, Netherlands (2019 - 2020)
• Marco Piani, University of Strathclyde, UK (2016 - 2018)
• Sven Ramelow, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (2016 - 2018)
• Joseph M. Renes, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2016 - 2021)
• Jörg Schmiedmayer, VCQ, Atominstitut, and TU-Wien, Austria (2016 - 2021)
• Volkher Scholz, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2016 - 2020)
• John A. Smolin, IBM Research, USA (2016 - 2021)
• Aephraim M. Steinberg, University of Toronto, Canada (2016 - 2021)
• Marco Tomamichel, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (2016 - 2020)
• Thomas Vidick, California Institute of Technology, USA (2016 - 2020)
• Francesca Vidotto, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands (2016 - 2021)
• Michael Walter, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (2016 - 2021)
• Andrew White, University of Queensland, Australia (2016 - 2018)
• Karol Życzkowski, Jagiellonian University, Poland (2016 - 2021)

Quantum ran an open call for editors in September 2016, with over 130 applications, from which the steering board selected Quantum’s forty founding editors.  In addition, Quantum has a list of Reserve Editors, who are activated when an active editor retires or the workload in a subfield becomes too high. The first renewal and expansion of the editorial board took place in Autumn 2018, under consultation of the steering board. The second renewal occurred in Spring 2020, with another open call. In 2021 Quantum experienced a large increase in submissions, and reached out directly to a batch of new editors under suggestion from the Editorial and Steering boards.

Executive Board

The members of the Executive Board manage logistics, funding, administrative aspects, publicity, and hold positions in the presidency of the non-profit organization backing Quantum.

• Christian Gogolin, Covestro Deutschland AG, Germany (Secretary)
• Marcus Huber, IQOQI – Institute for Quantumoptics und Quantuminformation, Austria (Cashier)
• Lídia del Rio, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (President)

Management Assistants

These are the only paid staff at Quantum, hired in December 2017 and April 2020, respectively, to assist the executive board in running the journal.

• Eva Jelinek
• Lukas Schalleck

Further Contributors

• Paul Erker (legal advice)
• Chris Ferrie (Quantum Leaps)
• Nicolai Friis (deputy president, quality control and copy-editing for Quantum Views since October 2020)
• Manuela Gogolin (design, proofreading)
• Simon Gogolin (design)
• Christopher Granade (LaTeX template, code of conduct)
• Sarah Kaiser (code of conduct)
• Johannes Meyer (LaTeX template)
• Mariana Munárriz (accounting, secretariat, 2016-2021)
• Julia Riederer (design)
• James Wootton (reddit, /u/quantum_jim)
• Martin Schwarz (controlling)
• Lukas Edengruber (controlling)
• Damian Draxler (controlling)

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