CLAUDIO CONTI

CLAUDIO CONTI is the author of over 250 articles published in top-level journals. He authored the book Quantum Machine Learning (Springer, 2024). Among his recent interests is the merging of concepts in the science of complexity, machine learning, photonics, and nonlinear optics towards applications such as Ising machines and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics. He is head of the Nonlinear Optics Laboratory and Full Professor of “Optics and Laboratory” and “Nonlinear Waves and Solitons” at the Department of Physics of the University Sapienza in Rome (IT). CC is also the Scientific Director of the Laboratory of Photonic Technologies at the Research Center Enrico Fermi.

CC has been the Director of the Institute of Complex Systems of the Italian National Research Council (ISC-CNR) in Rome (Italy) from 2014 to 2023. Formerly, he was a New Talent Grant from the Research Center Enrico Fermi, Humboldt fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light; Senior Researcher at CNR, Principal Investigator of the Starting Independent Research Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), with the project Light and Complexity (ERC-StG); Principal Investigator of the ERC Proof of Concept Grant Vanguard (ERC-PoC); Principal Investigator of the Templeton Foundation Grant Generalized Uncertainty Principle and the Photon. Since 2025, he is Principal Investigator of the Advanced Research Grant from the European Research Council HYPERSPIM (ERC-AdG).