Maria Marilena Longobardi

Maria (Marilena) Longobardi is Executive Director and Scientific Coordinator of NCCR SPIN, the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research on spin qubits in silicon, hosted at the University of Basel, where she also leads the center's education and young researchers programs. Trained as a quantum physicist — Ph.D. from the University of Salerno in joint supervision with UC Berkeley, followed by a decade of research at the University of Geneva — she moved into research leadership and international scientific relations, serving as Chief of International Relations at the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences from 2019 to 2021. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , past Chair of the Committee on Public Enaggement, and founded its Forum on Early Career Scientists.