Scholar
Francesco Anna Mele
Google Scholar ID: Q6LSCoMAAAAJ
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Citations & Impact
Citations
141
H-index
7
i10-index
7
Publications
19
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- 1. Recipient of the 2025 Boeing Quantum Creators Prize
- 2. Recipient of the Giuseppe Franco Bassani Award, an annual honor bestowed by the Italian Physical Society to a single outstanding early-career Italian physicist
- 3. Recipient of the Federico Tonielli Award, conferred annually to a single Italian PhD student in STEM for outstanding research excellence
- 4. Paper 'Learning quantum states of CV systems' accepted for publication in Nature Physics
- 5. Paper 'Maximum tolerable excess noise in CV-QKD and improved lower bound on two-way capacities' published in Nature Photonics
Research Experience
- 1. Research visit at California Institute of Technology (USA), hosted by Hsin-Yuan Huang (Robert)
- 2. Research visits at University of Amsterdam and QuSoft (Netherlands), hosted by Ludovico Lami
- 3. Research visit at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), hosted by Jens Eisert
Education
- 1. Bachelor in Physics at the University of Pisa (maximum grade: 110/110 cum laude)
- 2. Master in Physics at the University of Pisa (maximum grade: 110/110 cum laude)
- 3. 'Special' Master in Physics at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (maximum grade: 100/100 cum laude)
- 4. PhD student at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, supervised by Vittorio Giovannetti and co-supervised by Ludovico Lami.
Background
- Research interests include Quantum Information, Continuous-Variable Systems, Quantum Learning Theory, and Quantum Shannon Theory. Passionate about applying elegant mathematics (e.g., matrix analysis, probability theory, group theory, semidefinite programming, etc.) and intricate numerical/programming tools to solve practical technological problems.