Samael Sarmiento

Samael Sarmiento was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in 1991. He received his M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Malaga in 2015, followed by a PhD from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia's Optical Communications Group in 2020. He then worked in an R&D role developing integrated graphene-based optical structures for automotive radars, before moving into a research position focused on continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD), where he has led photonic integrated circuit development for CV-QKD at LuxQuanta, working across silicon, silicon nitride, and indium phosphide platforms.