Speaker Biographies
Mariia Bastamova is a PhD student at Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, UK. She received her BSc and MSc degree in Laser technologies in 2019 and 2021. Currently she is working on Broadband Fibre Optical Parametric Amplifiers for advanced fibre optic communication systems in Professor Andrew Ellis research team. Dr. Alejandra Beghelli is a Lecturer in Optical Communications and Networks at the Electronic & Electrical Engineering Department at UCL. She is one of the principal investigators at the Optical Networks Group and part of the UCL team in the UKRI project Quantum Data Centre of the Future. Her research focuses on resource allocation techniques in optical and quantum networks. Geoff Bennett is the Director of Solutions & Technology for Infinera, a leading manufacturer of Intelligent Transport Network solutions. He has over 35 years of experience in the data communications industry, including IP routing with Proteon and Wellfleet; ATM and MPLS experience with FORE Systems; and optical transmission and switching experience with Marconi, where he held
Manjari Chandra-Ramesh joined Amadeus in 2021 and focuses on investments in the areas of machine learning, AI, robotics and quantum technologies. Manjari has more than a decade of experience in the tough to commercialise University IP sector . Prior to Amadeus, Manjari worked at IP Group plc, where she managed technology investments from deal origination to exit, and was responsible for the
trade sale of TheySay Ltd (emotional AI acquired by Aptean), secondary share sale exit in Concirrus Ltd (insurance tech), and sourcing and working with the founding team to build Quantum Motion Ltd (Quantum Computing in Silicon). Manjari created and led IP Group’s Quantum Technologies investment strategy and set-up an initial £12m accelerator fund that was run in exclusive partnership with Innovate UK. Previously, Manjari was a Technology Transfer Manager at Oxford University Innovation Ltd responsible for commercialising university intellectual property. Prior to that she was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. As part of her PhD, she also completed an Internship at Google (now Alphabet). Manjari holds a PhD from the University of Oxford in Machine Learning and Autonomous Vehicles which she did on a Rhodes Scholarship and a bachelors in Electronics, Instrumentation and Computer Science Engineering from the University of Madras. She is fluent in English, Tamil, Hindi and beginners Japanese.
Ultan Daly is a Ph.D student in the Structured Photonics Research Group at the University of Glasgow. He graduated with a MPhys from the University of Bath in 2019. His research project focuses on developing free-space optical communication technologies for turbulent environments. This project is supported by BT through the CDT in Applied Photonics. Dr Zoe Davidson works for BT as a Researcher of Optical Networks in the Applied Research and Strategy Team where she focuses on Photonic Integrated Circuits for use in both classical and quantum networks. Zoe is from NZ where she completed my undergraduate degree in Optoelectronics at the University of Auckland and then worked at Vodafone NZ as a design engineer
the position of Distinguished Engineer in the CTO Office. Geoff is a frequent conference speaker, and is the author of “Designing TCP/IP Internetworks”, published by VNR.
Dr. Nicola Calabretta received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 1999. In 2004 he received the Ph.D. degree from the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. From 2004 to 2007 he was with Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna University, Pisa, Italy where he was involved in the EU project IST-NOBEL I and IST-
NOBEL II. In 2007 he worked as PostDoc at the Technical University of Denmark, Denmark. He is currently working as Associate Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and member of the Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir Institute at TUE. He has participated to several EU projects, and currently involved in EU ALLEGRO, ADOPTION, B5G- OPEN, WIDE5GNET, TWILIGHT, WON, 5G-MOBIX, 5G METRO-HAUL, QAMELEON, PASSION, OLYMPICS projects focusing on the development of a high-performance photonic switched networks for 5G and beyond and cloud computing. He co-authored over 480 journal papers and conference proceedings and holds 5 international patents. His fields of interest are smart optical Datacom and telecom network, 5G/6G, cloud computing, optical interconnects, high performance optical networks for telecom and mmW distribution, and photonic integrated optical switching circuits. He is a member of the TPC of several conferences such as ECOC, OFC, Photonics in Switching and Computing, IEEE CSNDSP, IEEE ICC, IEEE COMNETSAT, and others.
in Optical Network. Zoe then moved to Bristol to complete my PhD in Photonics (with a focus on semiconductor compounds for energy efficient emission in the O- and C-bands), which she successfully defended in November 2022.
Dr Aleksandr Donodin is a Research Associate at Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies. Since 2019 he has been working as Early-Stage Researcher in European Training Network WON “Wideband Optical Networks” at Aston University with a project “Bismuth-doped fibre amplifiers for multi-band optical networks”. He finished his PhD in 2022 and currently continues his research on
wideband application of bismuth-doped fibre amplifiers in the frame of the EPSRC TRANSNET project “Transforming networks - building an intelligent optical infrastructure”.
Nelson Castro is a Ph.D. student at Aston University in the UK. His research aims to develop ML-aided schemes for the compensation of nonlinear impairments in fibre optic communication systems. He received his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Honduras in 2016. In 2018 he was awarded an EMJMD scholarship to study in the
Alessandro Fedrizzi is a professor of physics at Heriot-Watt University. He has been involved in quantum technology research for nearly twenty years, focusing on the development of pioneering quantum light sources and their application in quantum communication, sensing, and computing. Alessandro is a member of the UK Quantum Communications Hub, where he currently leads the quantum networking work-package and the UK-QEYSat collaboration.
SMARTNET master’s degree program at Télécom SudParis and Aston University. His fields of interest include machine learning, optical networks, and digital signal processing.
Marcus Clark is a PhD candidate within the UK Quantum Communications Hub based at the University of Bristol. His PhD is focused towards developing Entanglement Distribution Quantum Networks towards interconnecting Quantum Technology and preforming Secure Communication. As part of the Quantum Engineering CDT he has learned about the breadth of the Quantum Landscape and has focused into his passion of Quantum Communications.
Daniel Gilks is a BT senior research manager leading BT’s efforts to accelerate and develop prototyping capability in physical network hardware. This includes a current focus on Quantum Radio systems.
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