MEet the partners
The project consortium is composed of six partners from five different countries:
Delft, Netherlands
Single Quantum was established as the first European company manufacturing and commercializing superconducting single photon detectors. By sharing this groundbreaking technology, they aim to create a better future.
SQ’s multi-channel detection system has already been chosen by more than 200 academic and industrial labs all over the world to perform complex optical measurements. The unique combination of unparalleled detection efficiency and time resolution is what makes our superconducting detectors the ideal choice for quantum communication, cryptography, infrared fluorescence spectroscopy, laser ranging and many other applications.
Barcelona, Spain
ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences was founded in 2002 in the Mediterranean Technology Park in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. The institute currently hosts 400 people, organized in 26 research groups in 60 state-of-the-art research laboratories. Research lines encompass diverse areas in which photonics plays a decisive role, with an emphasis on basic and applied themes relevant to medicine and biology, advanced imaging techniques, information technologies, a range of environmental sensors, tunable and ultrafast lasers, quantum science and technologies, photovoltaics and the properties and applications of nano and quantum materials such as graphene, among others. ICFO participates actively in the European Technological Platform Photonics21 and is very proactive in fostering entrepreneurial activities, spin-off creation, and creating collaborations and links between industry and ICFO researchers.
Milano, Italy
Politecnico di Milano is one of the largest universities in Italy (about 1600 faculty staff and 50000 students), and is acknowledged in Europe as a high-level engineering school. It is the top university in Italy for projects funded in Horizon Europe/H2020/FP7 (overall >800 projects, >300M€), and is actively supporting technology transfer (>100 spin-off companies, >2650 patents).
For about thirty years the group of Photonics for Health (part of the CUSBO facility, belonging to the European Network “Laserlab-Europe”) has been performing research activity for the development of laser-based biomedical techniques with ultimate sensitivity and high temporal resolution. Innovative concepts were implemented into prototypes and validated in clinics.
https://www.fisi.polimi.it/en/research/european_facility/cusbo
Delft, Netherlands
The Delft University of Technology is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. The Optics Research Group of Delft University of Technology carries out research to achieve disruptive improvements in resolution and sensitivity for a plethora of applications, and provides high level education and supervision of students and trainings for industry. The Group is active in outreach, is co-leader of the Dutch Optics Centre and is/has been in the Boards of international and national optical societies such as ICO, EOS and PhotonicsNL.
Brussels, Belgium
Laserlab-Europe AISBL is an international not-for-profit association, bringing together 47 leading laser research infrastructures in 22 European countries. Jointly, they are committed to coordinate operation and R&D efforts in order to facilitate the development of advanced lasers and laser-based technologies, and to promote the efficient utilisation of advanced laser facilities by users from academia and industry. The majority of the members provide open access to their facilities to scientists from all over the world to perform experiments in a large variety of inter-disciplinary research, covering advanced laser science and applications in most domains of research and technology.
London, United Kingdom
The UCL partners are from the Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory (BORL) at University College London (UCL) in the UK, with expertise in developing both optical brain monitoring/imaging solutions, as well as laboratory and computational based solutions for testing optical devices. The team has an established international reputation for developing instruments, computational tools, optical based phantoms for validating optical systems and clinical translation in newborns and adults. The UCL partner with the guidance of Prof. Tachtsidis will develop the Monte Carlo computational based tools in WP3.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/…/biomedical-optics-research-laboratory-borl
fastMOT Project
fastMOT is funded by the EU’s HORIZON EUROPE programme under grant agreement number 101099291 and by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee (grant number 10063660).
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