at the ISTA Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Retreat, taking place at RETTER Bio-Nature-Resort in Styria on May 4-5, 2026 for his poster presentation: “Towards a Quantum Internet for Microwave-Operated Quantum Processors”. – Congrats!

On June 1–2, ISTA hosted the first annual meeting for CIELO (Cavity-Integrated Electro-Optics: Measuring, Converting and Manipulating Microwaves with Light), a highly ambitious European Innovation Council (EIC)-funded project. Coordinated by ISTA under the guidance of Prof. @Johannes Fink and EPFL, the consortium brings together key European partners: KIT, TU Delft, SilOriX, IBM and Luxtelligence.  Together they aim to revolutionize quantum computing by developing electro-optic interconnects for scalable, modular quantum processors.

Managed and organized by the support of the Grant Office (Research Project Coordination), the two-day event brought partners together to review research progress across work packages and plan future milestones. Beyond the scientific sessions, the consortium enjoyed a hike through the Viennese vineyards, a traditional dinner at a local Heuriger, and a visit to the VISTA Science Experience Center.
👉 Learn more on the CIELO Website.
Funded by the European Union under the EIC Pathfinder Open programme (grant agreement No 101187231).
Contributor: @Polyxeni Bozatzi, CIELO Research Project Coordinator

Big congrats to Thomas who recently defended his PhD on Interfacing superconducting qubits with optical photons!

And a big thank you to Peter Rabl from the WMI & TU Munich serving as the external PhD committee member!

Big congrats to Andrea who recently defended his PhD on High-Impedance Quantum Circuits for Mesoscopic Physics – Geometric Superinductors and Insulating Josephson Chains!

And a big thank you to Andrew Higginbotham from the University of Chicago serving as the external PhD committee member!

Big shout out to our PhD student Alejandro Andres Juanes for winning the best poster award for his poster Continuous variable entanglement meets qubits, which he presented at the LT30 Satellite meeting Low Temperature Quantum Detectors held in Helsinki, Finland, August 3 – 7, 2025

Great results!
Big congratulations!

Georg won one of the few Outstanding PhD Thesis Awards at ISTA. Well deserved!

Big congrats to Riya who recently defended her PhD on Quantum Remote Sensing and Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions in the Microwave Regime!

And a big thank you to Peter Rabl from TU Munich serving as the external PhD committee member!

Big congrats to Georg who recently defended his PhD on microwave-optics interconnects for superconducting circuits!

And a big thank you to Mohammad Mirhosseini from Caltech as the external PhD committee member!

Big congrats to Dr. Hassani who recently defended his PhD on IST and 0-pi qubits!

And a big thank you to Andras Gyenis from UC Bolder for visiting in person.

Big congrats to Rishabh Sahu for winning this years Carl E. Anderson Division of Laser Science Dissertation Award of the American Physical Society:

“For realizing a high-cooperativity electro-optic interconnect demonstrating ultra-low noise conversion and the first observation of microwave-optical entanglement, thus laying the experimental foundations for the new field of cavity quantum electro-optics.”

A great honor and well deserved!