Itamar Sivan, CEO of Israeli quantum startup Quantum Machines, is the second nominee of the ‘Quantum Personality of the Year 2020’.
He has co-founded his company in 2018, just after having created WISe – the Weizmann Institute Students Entrepreneurship Club – in 2015.
Itamar graduated a MSc in Physics from the famous French ‘École Normale Supérieure’ then got his PhD in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Itamar’s interview can be read there.
PS: Each week up to mid-January, we will introduce a new ‘Quantum Personality of the Year’ nominee. By the end of January, there will be an open voting process to select the winner amongst the nominees. The winner will be known on first week of February.