Dr. Rolando Somma is a scientist working at the forefront of quantum information at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Rolando received his Ph.D. from the Instituto Balseiro, Argentina, and was a postdoctoral researcher at LANL and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Somma has coauthored over 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals that are highly cited, and has given over 60 invited seminars in top institutions and conferences. He is the recipient of several awards, including the 2006 LANL’s Postdoctoral Distinguished Performance Award and the 2015 Google Faculty Research Award. His pioneering work on quantum information has been reported in the media many times.