Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Senior Advisor / Lead Quantum Networks

SURF

Sep 2024 – Present Utrecht, The Netherlands
Working at the Innovation Lab leading SURF’s quantum network project portfolio.
 
 
 
 
 

Quantum Network Engineer

QuTech / Delft University of Technology

Apr 2021 – Aug 2024 Delft, The Netherlands

Quantum network software and network protocol researcher, architect, and developer.

Stack and Integration Team Lead in the Quantum Internet Alliance.

 
 
 
 
 

Co-chair of Quantum Internet Research Group

Internet Research Task Force (IRTF)

Mar 2020 – Present
Co-chair of Quantum Internet Research Group at the IRTF whose aim is to address the question of how to design and build quantum networks.
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Researcher

QuTech / Delft University of Technology

Feb 2019 – Mar 2021 Delft, The Netherlands
Quantum Internet Alliance Postdoc developing software and network architecture for quantum networks with particular focus on end-to-end connectivity protocols and potential network operator use cases.
 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineer

Metaswitch

Oct 2016 – Dec 2018 London, UK

Software engineer working on the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for the Metaswitch layer 2 and layer 3 (IP and MPLS) control plane as part of the network software team.

Lead for C++ education and adoption within the network software team.

 
 
 
 
 

DPhil Student Researcher

Department of Physics, University of Oxford

Oct 2012 – Sep 2016 Oxford, UK

DPhil student working on theoretical research on the competition between weak quantum measurement and many-body dynamics in ultracold bosonic gases.

Tutor for atomic physics and mathematics to physics undergraduate students.

Publications

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Quantum entanglement is so fundamentally different from a network packet that several quantum network stacks have been proposed; one of …

The vision of a quantum internet is to enhance existing Internet technology by enabling quantum communication between any two points on …

Im weltweiten Wettlauf um die Entwicklung nützlicher Quantencomputer (QC) müssen diese Computer miteinander verbunden werden, damit sie …

Blog Posts

Rather than migrating my fragile Docker Compose setup I decided to rebuild it from scratch with all the lessons I learned along the …

I played the Tapestry single-player variant against the Automa several times to experiment with different strategies and see if I can …

In this post I expand on my own thoughts and experience with different strategies in the game of Tapestry. The goal is go over the …

In this episode of the Routing Table Podcast I explain what Quantum Networking/Internet is and what it’s not. Rick and Melchior …

When I completed my PhD back in 2016 and started my new job as a software engineer in London I was not planning on ever going back to …

Projects

GitHub

My GitHub projects.

Gitea

My private Git forge.

Pcap

Rust crate for accessing libpcap.

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