Biography

I am the Founding Director of the Quantum Science and Technology Hub (QSTH).

I received my Masters degree in physics from University of Bari in 2006 (graduating Summa cum Laude and earning the BNC Research Award for my thesis research).

I received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Bari and in Applied Physics from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2010 under the International Cooperation Program Award awarded by the Italian Ministry of Research (Ph.D. advisor, Prof. Yanhua Shih).

My research was recognized with the “Giampietro Puppi Award” for the best Ph.D. thesis in Physics and Astrophysics in Italy in the academic years 2007-2009.

After a one-year postdoctoral fellowship issued by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, I moved as a group leader and lecturer to the Institute of Quantum Physics at Ulm University, Germany directed by Prof. Wolfgang Schleich, before joining the University of Portsmouth in 2016.

Research interests

My research aims at achieving a deeper understanding of the fundamental physics at the interplay between quantum physics, quantum information, complexity theory, atomic physics and general relativity, as well as at boosting the real-world implementation of quantum-enhanced technologies for applications in quantum computation, quantum communication, simulation of complex quantum systems, high-precision sensing and imaging.

I have given > 80 invited lectures at prestigious conferences and institutes across Europe, North America and Asia, including MIT, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Maryland, and Oxford University and numerous worldwide extended academic visits, including US Department of Defence labs. I have also organised international workshops in the areas of quantum sensing and quantum imaging.

As an example, the research in my group on multi-photon-correlation interferometry has been triggering experiments worldwide and has boosted novel approaches to quantum computing and quantum sensing with available experimental resources. Our discovery of a novel thermal-light interference effect and its application for remote sensing has triggered experiments in the United States, Italy and South Korea. Within the QUANTUS collaboration, the first experimental realisation of Bose-Einstein-condensate interference in microgravity paved the way to the first quantum tests of general relativity in space.

Research outputs

2025

Heisenberg-scaling precision in the estimation of two parameters in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Rai, A., Triggiani, D., Facchi, P., Tamma, V.

5 Jun 2025, In: Physical Review A. 111, 13p., 062408

Research output: Article

Superresolution imaging of two incoherent sources via two-photon interference sampling measurements in the transverse momenta

Muratore, S., Triggiani, D., Tamma, V.

13 May 2025, In: Physical Review Applied. 23, 10p., 054033

Research output: Article

Momentum-entangled two-photon interference for quantum-limited transverse-displacement estimation

Triggiani, D., Tamma, V.

7 Mar 2025, In: Physical Review A. 111, 3, 12p., 032605

Research output: Article

Multi-parameter estimation of the state of two interfering photonic qubits

Maggio, L., Triggiani, D., Facchi, P., Tamma, V.

10 Feb 2025, In: Physica Scripta. 100, 3, 12p., 035106

Research output: Article

2024

Adaptive CNN method for prostate MR image segmentation using ensemble learning

Jacobson, L. E. O., Masum, S. K., Bader-El-Den, M., Hopgood, A. A., Tamma, V., Prendergast, D., Osborn, P.

29 Nov 2024,

Research output: Conference contribution

Zeptosecond-scale single-photon gyroscope

Sgobba, F., Triggiani, D., Tamma, V., De Natale, P., Gagliardi, G., Avino, S., Santamaria Amato, L.

8 Jul 2024, In: Advanced Quantum Technologies

Research output: Article

Estimation with ultimate quantum precision of the transverse displacement between two photons via two-photon interference sampling measurements

Triggiani, D., Tamma, V.

30 Apr 2024, In: Physical Review Letters. 132, 18, 7p., 180802

Research output: Article

2023

Fluorescence lifetime Hong-Ou-Mandel sensing

Lyons, A., Zickus, V., Álvarez-Mendoza, R., Triggiani, D., Tamma, V., Westerberg, N., Tassieri, M., Faccio, D.

4 Dec 2023, In: Nature Communications. 14, 8005, 7p., 8005

Research output: Article

Coherent two-photon LIDAR with incoherent light

Lee, C. H., Kim, Y., Im, D. G., Kim, U. S., Tamma, V., Kim, Y. H.

28 Nov 2023, In: Physical Review Letters. 131, 22, 6p., 223602

Research output: Article

Hybrid system for prostate MR image segmentation using expert knowledge and machine learning

Jacobson, L. E. O., Bader-El-Den, M., Hopgood, A. A., Tamma, V., Prendergast, D., Osborn, P.

8 Nov 2023,

Research output: Conference contribution

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