{"id":1722,"date":"2023-06-08T12:57:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T12:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/snt-en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1722"},"modified":"2024-08-07T10:28:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T08:28:07","slug":"securing-quantum-communications-a-talk-with-prof-symeon-chatzinotas","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/snt-en\/news\/securing-quantum-communications-a-talk-with-prof-symeon-chatzinotas\/","title":{"rendered":"Securing quantum communications: a talk with Prof. Symeon Chatzinotas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<p>Quantum communications will revolutionise cybersecurity, and Luxembourg is ideally positioned to be a frontrunner in this space. \u201cIn fact, the Grand Duchy&nbsp;is well on track to be the first European country with a full-fledged national QCI infrastructure, which will open countless opportunities for residents and companies alike,\u201d says Prof. Symeon Chatzinotas, Head of the Signal Processing and Communications research group at SnT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To support this effort, researchers at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) have been working for years on this topic, and recently launched two major projects in this sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wwwfr.uni.lu\/snt\/research\/sigcom\/projects\/luqcia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Luxembourg Quantum Communication Infrastructure Laboratory&nbsp;(LUQCIA)<\/a>&nbsp;is a five-year project to build a national testbed for quantum communication infrastructure\u202f(QCI) and enable advanced collaborative research in this domain. Launched in March 2022 by SnT, the project is funded by the European Union \u2013 Next Generation EU, with the collaboration of Luxembourg\u2019s Department of Media, Connectivity and Digital Policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Luxembourg Experimental Network for Quantum Communication Infrastructure<i>&nbsp;<\/i>(Lux4QCI), a project&nbsp;co-funded by the Digital Europe Programme&nbsp;under Grant Agreement number 101091508,&nbsp;aims&nbsp;to build an EU-wide QCI by connecting national infrastructures with each other. It was launched&nbsp;in February 2023, by a consortium of seven partners that SnT, represented by <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwfr.uni.lu\/snt\/people\/symeon_chatzinotas\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Prof. Symeon Chatzinotas<\/a>, is leading as coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To know more about the two projects, what they stem from, and their long-term ambition, Farvest IT had a talk with Prof. Chatzinotas ahead of his keynote at the upcoming&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictspring.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">ICT Spring<\/a>&nbsp;conference on 29 June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farvest.com\/securing-the-future-of-quantum-communication-a-talk-with-prof-symeon-chatzinotas-on-the-luqcia-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the interview<\/a>&nbsp;on Farvest IT\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"news-category":[4],"news-topic":[10,24],"organisation":[184,195],"authorship":[33],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - 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