Portuguese Quantum Communication Infrastructure (PTQCI)
Team Members
Deimos (DME):
  • Catarina Bastos
  • Margarida Vieira
  • Andoni Santos
  • Francisco Pinto
  • Vitória Cruz
Gabinete Nacional de Segurança (GNS):
  • António Gameiro Marques
  • Manuel Honorato
  • Paulo Jorge Santos
  • José Gonçalves
  • Nuno Pimpão
  • Mário Duarte
Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT):
Altice labs (ALB):
  • Rui Calé
  • Francisco Fontes
  • Miguel Freitas
  • Carlos Marques
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST):
  • Paulo Mateus
  • João Paulo Monteiro
  • Yasser Omar
  • Paulo Gil
Adyta (A):
  • Luís Maia
  • João Alves
IP Telecom (IP):
  • Rui Ribeiro
  • Luis Fernandes
  • José Carlos Gonçalves
  • Luis Figueiredo
  • André Rio
  • João Alves
Instituto Português da Qualidade (IPQ):
  • Isabel Godinho
  • João Alves e Sousa
  • Carlos Pires
Omnidea (O):
  • Renato Salles
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL):
  • Manfred Niehus
  • António Maçarico
  • António Serrador
  • Carlos Mendes
  • João Casaleiro
  • José Simão
  • Mário Mendes
  • Miguel Fernandes
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT):
  • Emanuel Massano
  • Sandra Fernandes
Warpcom (W):
  • Bruno Gonçalves
  • Bruno Banha
  • António Martins

Latest News

  • Tech Day 2024

    The second edition of the Quantum Tech Day took place in Aveiro, at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, on March 13, 2024. Ernesto Galvão from INL - International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory presented on Photonics Quantum Computing, and Professor Armando Nolasco Pinto discussed an engineering approach with MATLAB in Quantum Computing.
    March 13, 2024
  • Quantum Communication Networks Workshop

    From February 26 to 27, the University of Aveiro hosted the "Quantum Communications Network" workshop, organized by the Quantum Communications Group of the Instituto de Telecomunicações. The event brought together national and international key players in the field of quantum technologies.
    February 26-27, 2024
  • PTQCI Newsletter#2

    The second PTQCI Newsletter was published today. In this document, you may find the highlithgts of the second semester of the project and some other important information. You can download it here.
    December 31, 2023
  • Experimental field trial

    FCCN, IPTelecom, and Warpcom implemented a Secure Communication Link based on Quantum Technologies, connecting two points, on a 14-kilometer route, in Lisbon.
    November, 2023
  • REPMUS 2023

    Three of our partners, (GNS, IT and Deimos), participated in a field demonstration of a cutting-edge quantum-link CV-QKD system at #REPMUS23 and #NATODYMS23 exercises, organized by the Portuguese Navy at the Operational Experimentation Center in Troia, Portugal.
    September 21, 2023
  • PTQCI Newsletter#1

    The first PTQCI Newsletter was published today. In this document, you may find the highlithgts of the first six months of the project and some other important information. You can download it here.
    July 7, 2023
  • PETRUS Project Meeting

    PTQCI representatives participated in the PETRUS project and EU Commission meeting which took place on the 7th of June in Brussels.
    June 7, 2023
  • Quantum Tech Day

    This workshop took place on the 13th of March in the Instituto de Telecomunicações, headquartered at the campus of the University of Aveiro. Find out more here.
    March 13, 2023
  • Nacional kick-off meeting

    PTQCI project had its national kick-off meeting on the 1st of February at the National Security Office in Lisbon.
    February 1, 2023
  • EuroQCI kick-off meeting

    PTQCI representatives were present at the EuroQCI DIGITAL projects Kick-Off Meeting which took place on 24th of January at the EU Commission in Brussels.
    January 24, 2023
  • PTQCI project

    The PTQCI project officially started on 01/01/2023.
    January 1, 2023
  • PTQCI project selected for funding

    The PTQCI Consortium is pleased to announce that its project was considered for funding in the call DIGITAL-2021-QCI-01 — Deploying advanced national QCI systems and networks.
    July 14, 2022