Niccolo Somaschi is the cofounder and CTO of Quandela, a Quantum computing company providing solutions based on photonic technologies. Niccolo started his studies at the university of Milan, followed with a PhD in physics at the University of Southampton and subsequent post-doc at the CNRS – C2N laboratory in France. Niccolo is an expert in semiconductor processing and quantum optics with several articles published in top scientific journals and more than 2000 citations; he is at the origin of the latest generation of quantum light emitter devices and their integration in the quantum computing platforms proposed by Quandela.