Simone Severini is an Italian-born British computer scientist. He is currently Professor of Physics of Information at

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, and Director of Quantum Computing at

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Work

Severini worked in

quantum information science Quantum information science is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand the analysis, processing, and transmission of information using quantum mechanics principles. It combines the study of Information science with quantum effects in ...

and complex systems. Together with Adan Cabello and Andreas Winter, he defined a graph-theoretic framework for studying quantum contextuality, and together with Tomasz Konopka, Fotini Markopoulou, and

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, he introduced a

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model of spacetime called quantum graphity. He served as an editor of

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. In 2015 he was one of the first scientific advisors of Cambridge Quantum Computing, with

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, and Fernando Brandão. In network theory, he co-introduced the Braunstein–Ghosh–Severini entropy, with applications to quantum gravity.

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References

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