Born in
Treviso, Italy, in 1962, he studied Physics and
Applied Mathematics at the University of Padova.
He is a Full
Professor of Physics (Professore Ordinario) at the
University of Padova, where he currently teaches
Quantum Optics and related subjects.
Director and Founding member of the Padua Quantum Technologies Research Center.
Member of
the Board of Stakeholders of the European
Technological platform Photonics21
National
delegate for Action COST Nanoscale Quantum Optics
Deputy
National Delegate for COST Action Quantum Physics in
Space
Member of
the Executive
Board of Department
of Information Engineering,
UniPD.
Member of the Advisory Committee of Scientific and
Technological institutions.
Selected
current research activities in Experimental Quantum
Communications, as Group coordinator:
·
Principal
investigator for the I-QKD Italian quantum
communication in-orbit validation satellite (Italian
Space Agency)
·
OpenQKD
EU Testbed for Quantum Communications - Italian node
coordinator.
·
Project
coordinator for three development
projects on Space
Quantum Communication payload for the Italian Space
Agency (2016-2022).
·
Development
and patenting of Quantum Random Number Generators
QRNG – 17 Gbps record rate generated so far.
(2014-2019)
·
First
demonstration of Quantum Communications from an
orbiting transmitter on a LEO satellite using
polarization and temporal degrees of freedom
(2010-2016).
·
Fundamental
experiments in wave-particle duality of photons in
Space: Wheeler "Delayed Choice" experiment
(2016-2017).
·
Q-Space
Experiment: first demonstration of single-photon
link between a satellite and the Earth (2003-2008).
·
Canary 143
km Inter-island link experiment: Experimental
demonstration of Quantum Key Distribution with
mitigation of turbulence effects (2010-2015)
·
Single
photon exchange from a MEO satellite (2015).
·
Aberration
cancellation in quantum interferometry (2006-2009)
·
Adaptive
optics for entanglement generation and control
(2008-2014)
Past
research activities includes:
·
Experimental
study of the interaction of matter with radiation,
in the area of ultrashort and ultrafast laser
pulses: strongly nonlinear optical effects as
high-order laser harmonics generation and optical
ionization;
·
Phenomena
depending on the absolute phase of the radiation,
asymmetry in the multiphoton ionization, researches
in the generation and characterization of attosecond
pulses, (1997-2013).
·
Adaptive
optics application in ultrafast pulse generation
(2008-2013)
Author of
more than a hundred seventy
publications on peer-refereed journals,
including Nature and Science, on encyclopaedia and
editor of 2 books. Coauthor of more than 200
congresses contribution in the areas of Quantum
Communication, Quantum Optics, laser-matter
interaction and Atomic and Plasma Physics.
He
served as supervisor of 17 PhD project (3 in
progress), 7 as co-supervisor (4 in progress) and
supervisor of 88 Master students (3 in progress).
Invited
speaker in all continents and Referee for research
projects internationally.
He
is an Associate Editor of Scientific Reports
(Nature Pub.)
Served as
coordinator in several national and international
research projects, including the area of quantum
communication, attosecond
Physics,
application of laser in Medicine and Industry.
Coauthor of
12 industrial
patents and patent applications on topics ranging
from technological and medical applications of
lasers and optics to practical exploitation of
quantum processes.
Awards and
Prizes
- Winner of
the first prize, with team VIVA, of STARTCUP 2002 -
L'idea diventa impresa, the first competition among
Italian Universities on best proposal that exploits
for business a research idea, July 4, 2002,
now Premio Nazionale per l’Innovazione.
- Selected
for one of the 20 ideas of national relevance for
the 2nd National Day for the Research, Rome, Oct. 1,
2003.
- Winner of
the first prize ex-aequo of the 4-th
Premio Regionale per l’Innovazione on July 7, 2004.
Personal web
page:
http://www.dei.unipd.it/~pavil/PaoloVilloresi/Welcome.html
Group
webpage: https://quantumfuture.dei.unipd.it
Publications
at
https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=jCkHDZ8AAAAJ&hl=en