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Research

Funding

European Projects

  • Entanglement in Quantum Information Processing and Communication (EQUIP)
    Grant: IST-1999-11053
    Duration: from 01/01/2000 to 31/12/2002
  • Consortium for Hamiltonian Intra-molecular Computing (CHIC)
    Grant: IST-2001-33578
    Duration: from 01/07/2002 to 30/06/2006
  • Resources for Quantum Information (RESQ)
    Grant: IST-2001-37559
    Duration: from 01/01/2003 to 31/12/2005
  • Development of a Global Network for Secure Communication based on Quantum Cryptography (SECOQC)
    Integrated Project in FP6
    Grant: IST-2002-506813
    Duration: from 01/04/2004 to 31/03/2008
  • Continuous Variable Quantum Information with Atoms and Light (COVAQIAL)
    Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) in FP6 (coordinated by N. J. Cerf)
    Grant: FP6-511004
    Duration: from 01/09/2004 to 31/08/2007
  • Qubit Applications (QAP)
    Integrated Project in FP6
    Duration: from 01/11/2005 to 31/10/2009
  • Computing with Mesoscopic Photonic and Atomic States (COMPAS)
    ICT FET-Open STREP project in FP7 (coordinated by N. J. Cerf)
    Grant: FP7-ICT-212008
    Duration: from 01/04/2008 to 31/03/2011
  • Quantum Algorithmics (QALGO)
    ICT FET-Proactive STREP project in FP7
    Grant: FP7-ICT-2011.9.9 - Grant No 600700
    Duration: from 01/05/2013 to 30/04/2016
  • Quantum Simulation on a Photonic Chip (QUCHIP)
    ICT FET-PROACTIVE project in H2020
    Duration: from 01/03/2015 to 28/02/2018

European Networks

  • Quantum Information Processing and Communications Network of Excellence (QUIPROCONE)
    Grant: IST-1999-29064
    Duration: 3 years (2000-2003)
  • Structuring the European Research Area within Quantum Information Science and Technology (ERA-Pilot QIST)
    Belgian partner in this network: FNRS
    Duration: from 01/02/2005 to 31/01/2007
  • Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe (QUROPE)
    Coordination Action in FP6
    Duration: from 01/09/2006 to 31/08/2009
  • High-Performance Coherent Quantum Communications (HIPERCOM)
    Project coordinated by N. J. Cerf; part of the CHISTERA programme (European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences & Technologies ERA-Net, FP7)
    Duration: from 01/09/2011 to 31/08/2014
  • Quantum Technologies for Europe (QUTE-EUROPE)
    Coordination Action in FP7 (N. J. Cerf is member of the Advisory Board)
    Duration: from 01/02/2013 to 31/01/2016
  • Quantum algorithms and applications (QuantAlgo)
    Project coordinated by J. Roland; part of the QuantERA programme (H2020 ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum Technologies)
    Duration: from 01/02/2018 to 31/01/2022
  • Short-Range Optical Quantum Connections (ShoQC)
    Project in QuantERA programme (H2020 ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum Technologies)
    Duration: from 01/01/2020 to 31/12/2023
  • Applications and Hardware for Photonic Quantum Information Processing (AppQInfo)
    Innovative Training Network (ITN), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme
    Duration: from 01/03/2021 to 28/02/2025
  • Quantum algorithms for optimization (QOPT)
    Project in the QuantERA programme (H2020 ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum Technologies)
    Duration: from 01/01/2022 to 31/12/2024

International Foundations

  • Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Computation programme (QIT)
    Grant: European Science Foundation
    PI: Nicolas Cerf
    Duration: from 01/01/1999 to 31/07/2004
  • The Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime (QISS)
    Grant: The John Templeton Foundation
    PI: Ognyan Oreshkov
    Duration: from 01/12/2019 to 31/08/2022

Crédits Fédéraux: Pôles d'Attractions Interuniversitaires (PAI)

  • Photons and photonics : From basic physics to new system concepts (PHOTON)
    Grant: Interuniversitary Attraction Pole nº V-18
    Duration: 5 years (2002-2006)
  • Photonics@be
    Grant: Interuniversitary Attraction Pole nº VI-10
    Duration: 5 years (2007-2011)
  • Photonics@be: Towards smart photonics in 2020
    Grant: Interuniversitary Attraction Pole nº VII-35
    Duration: 5 years (04/2012-03/2017)
  • Creating highly entangled quantum states in the NISQ era
    Excellence of Science (EOS) programme - call 2021
    Duration : 2022 - 2025

Crédits de la Communauté Française de Belgique: Action de Recherche Concertée (ARC)

  • Théorie quantique de l'information et de la communication
    Grant: ARC nº 00/05-251
    PI: Nicolas Cerf
    Duration: from 01/10/2000 to 30/09/2005
  • Unifying COmputational, PHYsical, and MAthematical approaches to complexity (COPHYMA)
    Grant: ARC nº AUWB-2012-12
    PI: Jérémie Roland
    Duration: from 01/10/2012 to 30/09/2017
  • Quantum Physics and Information with Indefinite Causal Structure
    Grant: ARC Consolidation - 4.110.H.000029
    PI: Ognyan Oreshkov
    Duration: from 01/09/2018 to 31/08/2022

Crédits des Fonds Associés du FNRS

  • Information quantique et aspects fondamentaux de la mécanique quantique
    Grant: FRFC
    Duration: from 01/01/2000 to 31/12/2001
  • Aspects fondamentaux de la mécanique quantique: information quantique
    Grant: FRFC
    Duration: from 01/01/2002 to 31/12/2007
  • Théorie de l'information quantique, ses ramifications et applications
    Grant: FRFC
    Duration: from 01/01/2008 to 31/12/2011
  • Intrication quantique, états symétriques
    Grant: FRFC
    Duration: from 01/01/2011 to 31/12/2014
  • Gaussian quantum information
    Grant: PDR T.0199.13
    Duration: from 01/07/2013 to 30/06/2017
  • Quantum Communication and Cryptography in Continuous Time (QUICTIME)
    Grant: MIS F.4515.16
    Duration: from 01/01/2016 to 31/12/2017
  • Non-Gaussian states and processes in quantum information science
    Grant: PDR T.0224.18
    Duration: from 01/01/2018 to 31/12/2021

Crédits de la Région Bruxelloise

  • Cryptographie quantique; sécurité et applications potentielles
    Grant: LINK 1999-2003
    Industrial partnership: Proton World international s.a.
    Duration: from 01/07/1999 to 31/06/2003
  • Étude prospective de la cryptographie quantique à haut débit et de ses possibilitées de déploiement en région bruxelloise
    Grant: Prospective Research for Brussels, call 2006
    Researcher: E. Karpov
    Duration: from 01/01/2007 to 31/12/2009
  • Advanced ICT solutions to CYPTography, Authentication, and Secure Communication: software engineering assisted by quantum technology (CRYPTASC)
    Grant: ICT Impulse Program, call 2006
    Duration: from 01/09/2007 to 31/08/2010; second phase from 01/09/2010 to 31/08/2013
  • Security by Quantum Randomness (SeQuR)
    Grant: Spin-off in Brussels, call 2007
    Researcher: L.-Ph. Lamoureux
    Duration: from 01/02/2008 to 31/01/2012
  • Security-driven engineering of Cloud-based Applications (SeCloud)
    Grant: 2015-PFS-ICT-6 SecurIT: Innoviris strategic platform
    Duration: from 01/09/2015 to 31/08/2018