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Embassy of Italy Award

2025

FINALIST

Giovanni Scuri

Stanford University

Giovanni Scuri is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, working in the group of Professor Jelena Vučković. Giovanni’s research combines nonlinear optics and solid-state qubits with the goal of creating hybrid quantum systems for quantum sensing, networking and simulation. For this work, he was awarded the Bloch Postdoctoral Fellowship in Quantum Science and Engineering from the Stanford-SLAC Quantum Initiative (QFARM). 


Giovanni received a B.A. in physics and economics from Columbia University and a PhD in physics from Harvard University. His doctoral work in the group of Professor Hongkun Park spanned the fields of condensed matter physics and quantum optics, with a focus on developing atomically thin semiconductor systems to study new physical phenomena and create ultra-thin optoelectronic devices.

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