Prof Francesco Petruccione was born in 1961 in Genova, Italy. He studied Physics at the University of Freiburg i. Br. and received his PhD in 1988. He was conferred the “Habilitation” degree (Dr rer nat habil) from the same University in 1994.
In 2004 he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, in Durban, South Africa. In 2007 Prof Petruccione was granted a South African Research Chair for Quantum Information Processing and Communication.
At present, he is the interim Director of the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Science, an Adjoint Professor at the Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Big Data and Informatics of UKZN.
Prof Petruccione has Published more than 190 Papers in Refereed Scientific Journals. He is the Co-Author of The Theory of Open Quantum Systems (OUP, 2002) (about 6000 Citations according to Google Scholar), and of Supervised Learning with Quantum Computers. He is a Member of the Editorial Board of Open Systems and Information Dynamics, Scientific Reports, and Quantum Machine Intelligence. Prof Petruccione is also the Editor of several Proceedings Volumes and of Special Editions of Scientific Journals.
