2024 Laureate Profile: Professor Andrea Morello

Administering Organisation: The University of New South Wales

Fellowship Project Summary

FL240100181 - Establishing practical quantum information in higher dimensions

Professor Morello aims to develop a revolutionary quantum computer platform, where information is robustly and densely encoded within large atoms inside a silicon chip. The use of silicon as the basic platform will facilitate adoption by the trillion-dollar semiconductor industry, and the prospect of growing a domestic industry at the forefront of this field. This project will generate valuable ideas and intellectual property will be created and protected to give Australian industry a technological edge over their competitors. Professor Morello’s work will establish an Australian-led legacy in quantum computing, and a strategic network with like-minded countries. 

Australian Research Council Funding: $3,385,000