Montreal PhD candidate honoured for quantum photonics work

MONTREAL — The Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) announced today one of its PhD candidates, Piotr Roztocki (pictured), is the first Canadian to receive the Paul Baran Young Scholar award from the Marconi Society, which honours the world’s most innovative young engineers in information and communications technology. Roztocki won this year’s award for his work in developing scalable quantum resources that can be used within existing telecommunications networks. Under the supervision of INRS professor Roberto Morandotti, Roztocki’s work in quantum photonics is now being commercialized as part of the Montreal start-up Ki3 Photonics Technologies, where Roztocki is a...