Dr. Chiara Trovatello is recipient of the Optica Foundation Challenge 2024. The award supports early-career professionals with exceptional ideas to leverage optics and photonics and address global challenges. Chiara has received a US$100,000 prize for her project “Quantum-entangled Photon-pairs On-chip based on Layered Integrated Semiconductors (q-POLIS)”, which addresses the challenge of miniaturizing entangled photon sources using layered semiconductors. 

Chiara is currently conducting her research as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow between Columbia University (New York, USA) and Politecnico di Milano, with the goal of developing and characterizing novel low-dimensional platforms as ultracompact sources of quantum light. 

The Award Ceremony took place on Sept. 24, 2024, at the Denver Conference Center, during the Frontiers in Optics (FiO) Conference.

In the media:
• https://www.optica.org/foundation/opportunities/competitions_prizes/challenge/