Stefania Castelletto

Associate Professor, RMIT University, Melbourne

Stefania Castelletto is Associate Professor at RMIT University in renewable energy systems and systems engineering, and she is currently the deputy director of the RMIT Centre for Applied Quantum Technologies. She has over 20 years extensive experience in cutting edge research in inter-disciplinary fields such as metrology, instrumentation and measurements, quantum optics, quantum communication and computation, spectroscopy, material science, nanotechnologies, nanophotonics, renewable energy and solar systems. She pioneered the field of quantum metrology and quantum communication.

She holds a PhD in Metrology from the Polytechnic of Turin (Italy) and a MSc in Physics from the University of Turin. She has been for 10 years group leader at the Italian National Metrology Institute within the Optical Radiometry and Time and Frequency Division, for two years a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Technology and Standards in the USA. She has been at the University of Melbourne and Macquarie University as part of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence Engineered Quantum Systems.

She has more than 210 research publications in high impact journals with an h-index of 50.