Yasser Omar obtained his PhD in Quantum Information at the University of Oxford. Currently, he is professor at IST, U Lisbon, where he leads the Physics of Information & Quantum Technologies Group.
His research interests focus on quantum computation, quantum networks, and the energetics of quantum technologies. He has won 12+ European & American projects in these domains. In 2019, he founded the Quantum Technologies Lab, where free-space QKD was implemented for the first time in Portugal.
In 2022, he launched, together with colleagues in 65+ countries, the World Quantum Day. He has been involved in the creation and the coordination of the Quantum Flagship, is Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of CERN’s Quantum Technology Initiative, and is the president of PQI– Portuguese Quantum Institute.
