Antía Lamas analyses the second quantum revolution in the keynote lecture at IGFAE Science Week

Antía Lamas Liñares, a physicist from Compostela who currently leads work on quantum networks at Amazon Web Services, will give the keynote lecture of the IGFAE Science Week. The event will take place on Tuesday, November 11, at 8:00 p.m., at the Casa das Máquinas (Rúa das Galeras, s/n). Admission is free until full capacity reached.

In this year 2025, the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology is being celebrated, coinciding with the centenary of the publication, in 1925, of some of the papers that laid the foundations of quantum mechanics, and the consequent revolution in our understanding of the natural world. On the occasion of this anniversary, IGFAE Science Week approaches this discipline —essential for the development of modern physics— from very diverse perspectives.

In her talk, The Second Quantum Revolution: The Path from Science to Engineering, Antía Lamas will address the opportunities that, 100 years later, the development of quantum mechanics offers for producing new technologies and products.

Antía Lamas Liñares grew up in Santiago de Compostela and earned her degree in Physics at USC. She later obtained a Master’s in Applied Optics at Imperial College London and her PhD at the University of Oxford. She subsequently carried out postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before establishing her own quantum optics group at the National University of Singapore. During her time in Singapore, she helped launch the Centre for Quantum Technologies, where she was a founding Principal Investigator.

Since 2010 she has worked in the United States, first at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and later at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. In 2019 she joined SpeQtral, a Singaporean startup focused on satellite-based quantum communications, as Principal Quantum Scientist. In 2021 she joined Amazon.