TAIRA GIORDANI

Education
2014 Bachelor degree in Physics, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy.
Final evaluation: 110/110 cum laude

2016 Master degree in Physics, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy.
Final evaluation: 110/110 cum laude

2020 Ph.D. degree in Physics, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy.
Ph.D. Thesis Project
Title Photonic quantum walks as test-bed for learning protocols
Supervisor Prof. Fabio Sciarrino

Academic appointments
November 2019 - March 2020
Post-doc fellowship at Quantum Lab, Physics Department, Sapienza Università di Roma
Description: Investigation on the propagation of structured light in dispersive media. The
fellowship is within CANCER SCAN Fet-Open project.

April 2020 – December 2020
Post-doc fellowship at CLNS-IIT, Centro per le Nano-Scienze della vita, Istituto Italiano di
Tecnologia, Rome, Italy
Description: Wavefront shaping for retinal super-resolution imaging.

January 2021 – March 2023
Post-doc fellowship at Quantum Lab, Physics Department, Sapienza Università di Roma
Description: Hybrid photonic architectures for quantum information processing. The fellowship
is within the ERC Advanced Grant QU-BOSS project.

April 2023 – to date
Temporary lecturer position at Physics Department, Sapienza Università di Roma
Description: High-dimensional photonic platforms for quantum information. The fellowship is
within the NQSTI project (National Quantum Science and Technology Institute) founded by
PNRR MUR PE4

Other appointments
July-October 2019
Visiting student at Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, UK
Description: Project on learning algorithms for engineering and reconstruction of high-dimensional
quantum states encoded in the angular momentum of single-photon. The grant is within
the Borsa di mobilità congiunta per dottorandi di ricerca by the Ph.D. program of Sapienza
University of Rome

Selected Publications
1. T. Giordani, R. Wagner, C. Esposito, A. Camillini, F. Hoch, G. Carvacho, C. Pentangelo, F.
Ceccarelli, S. Piacentini, A. Crespi, N. Spagnolo, R. Osellame, E. F. Galvão, and F. Sciarrino,
“Experimental certification of contextuality, coherence, and dimension in a programmable universal
photonic processor”. Science Advances 9 (44), eadj4249, 2023
2. T. Giordani, F. Flamini, M. Pompili, N. Viggianiello, N. Spagnolo, A. Crespi, R. Osellame, N.
Wiebe, M. Walschaers, A. Buchleitner, and F. Sciarrino,”Experimental statistical signature of
many-body quantum interference”, Nature Photonics, 12 (3), 173-178, 2018.
3. T. Giordani, E. Polino, S. Emiliani, A. Suprano, L. Innocenti, H. Majury, L. Marrucci, M.
Paternostro, A. Ferraro, N. Spagnolo, and F. Sciarrino, ”Experimental engineering of arbitrary
qudit states with discrete-time quantum walks”, Physical Review Letters, 122 (2), 020503, 2019.
4. T. Giordani, A. Suprano, E. Polino, F. Acanfora, L. Innocenti, A. Ferraro, M. Paternostro,
N. Spagnolo, and F. Sciarrino, ”Machine learning-based classification of vector vortex beams”,
Physical Review Letters, 124 (16), 160401, 2020.
5. T. Giordani, D. J. Brod, C. Esposito, N. Viggianiello, M. Romano, F. Flamini, C. Carvacho, N.
Spagnolo, E. F. Galvão, and F. Sciarrino, ”Experimental quantification of genuine four-photon
indistinguishability”, New Journal of Physics, 22 (4), 043001, 2020.
6. D. Poderini, I. Agresti, G. Marchese, E. Polino, T. Giordani, A. Suprano, M. Valeri, G. Milani, N.
Spagnolo, G. Carvacho, R. Chaves, and F. Sciarrino, ”Experimental violation of n-locality in a
star quantum network”, Nature communications, 11 (1), 1-8, 2020.
7. F. Hoch, T. Giordani, L. Castello, G. Carvacho, N. Spagnolo, F. Ceccarelli, C. Pentangelo, S.
Piacentini, A. Crespi, R. Osellame, E. F. Galvão Sciarrino, F. Sciarrino. Modular quantum-toquantum
Bernoulli factory in an integrated photonic processor. Nature Photonics, 1-8, 2024
8. Hoch, F., Caruccio, E., Rodari, G., Francalanci, T., Suprano, A., Giordani, T., et al. Quantum
machine learning with Adaptive Boson Sampling via post-selection. Nature Communications,
16(1), 902, 2025
9. Polacchi, B., Hoch, F., Rodari, G., Savo, S., Carvacho, G., Spagnolo, N., Giordani, T., Sciarrino,
F. (2024). Teleportation of a genuine single-rail vacuum-one-photon qubit generated via a
quantum dot source. npj Nanophotonics, 1(1), 45.
10. T. Giordani, C. Esposito, F. Hoch, G. Carvacho, D. J. Brod, E. F. Galvão, N. Spagnolo, and F.
Sciarrino, ”Witnesses of coherence and dimension from multiphoton indistinguishability tests”,
Physical Review Research, 3 (2), 023031, 2021.
11. T. Giordani*, L. Innocenti, A. Suprano, E. Polino, M. Paternostro, N. Spagnolo, F. Sciarrino,
and A. Ferraro, ”Entanglement transfer, accumulation and retrieval via quantum-walk-based
qubit-qudit dynamics”, New Journal of Physics, 23 (2), 023012, 2021.
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12. T. Giordani, V. Mannucci, N. Spagnolo, M. Fumero, A. Rampini, E. Rodolà, and F. Sciarrino,
”Certification of Gaussian Boson Sampling via graphs feature vectors and kernels”, Quantum Sci.
Technol, 8 015005, 2022.
13. F. Hoch, S. Piacentini, T. Giordani, Z. Tian, M. Iuliano, C. Esposito, A. Camillini, G. Carvacho,
F. Ceccarelli, N. Spagnolo, A. Crespi, F. Sciarrino and R. Osellame, ”Reconfigurable continuouslycoupled
3D photonic circuit for Boson Sampling experiments” npj Quantum Inf 8, (55) 2022.

Selected Conference Presentations
-Invited talk: ” Hybrid Photonics Platforms for Quantum Walk”, 11th International Workshop of
Quantum Simulation and Quantum Walks, January 2025, Naples, Italy.
-Invited talk: ” Hybrid Photonics Platforms for Quantum Information Processing”, 10th International
Quantum Photonic Spotlight, October 2024, Paderborn, Germany.
-Invited talk: ” Generation of entangled states via semiconductor quantum dots”, Quantum
Science Generation Workshop, May 2024, Trento, Italy.
-Invited talk: ” Quantum walk in the orbital angular momentum of single-photon: quantum
state engineering and reconstruction”, 10th International Workshop of Quantum Simulation and
Quantum Walks, November 2023, Tsukuba, Japan.
-Invited talk: ”Hybrid Photonics Platforms for Quantum Information Processing”, Quantum 2023
conference, September 2023, Torino, Italy.
-Invited talk: ”Generation of entangled photonic states via semiconductor quantum dots”, 15th
Italian Quantum Information Science Conference, September 2023, Trieste, Italy.
-Contributed talk: ”State reconstruction via a photonic extreme learning machine in the angular
momentum of single photons”, Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning, December 2024,
Melbourne, Australia
-Contributed talk: ”Boson Sampling in reconfigurable continuously-coupled integrated 3D architectures”,
Single Photon Workshop 2022, 31st October -5th November 2022, Seoul South Korea
-Contributed talk: ”Reconfigurable continuously-coupled integrated circuits for Boson Sampling”,
International Conference on Integrated Quantum Photonics 2022, 5-7th October 2022, Copenhagen,
Denmark