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Dr Martin Felle

Dr Martin Felle

Zurich-based Technology Professional

Mind the gap

Photonics & Quantum Information

We live in an exciting age. Every decade sees the kind of technological advances that once took generations to occur, and progress is only accelerating. With progress taking place quicker than society can keep up, today’s challenge is to deliver these amazing ideas and research to those who stand to benefit.

Organisations hoping to take emerging technologies to market face a daunting communication gap. Engaging users is a challenge for any novel product, but when a technology is so advanced—such that no daily-life comparison can be drawn—the difficulties in unlocking its value and benefits rise a thousandfold. It requires a brand-new toolbox to attract, educate and inform their audience. All to turn amazing ideas and hardware into impactful products.

Today, Martin supports the organisations facing this ever-deepening technological complexity, by working with them to build strong and scalable strategies, tools and content that impress clarity, credibility and quality to their users.

In particular, Martin works on two prime examples of emerging technologies: quantum information and integrated photonics. These avenues promise amazing advances in security, computing, scientific research, metrology and manufacturing, lifting our world to new and sustainable heights.

Interests

  • Quantum information
  • Integrated photonics
  • Cybersecurity
  • Leadership and transformation

Education

  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2017

    University of Cambridge

  • MRes in Photonic Systems Development, 2013

    University College London

  • MPhys in Physics, 2012

    University of Oxford

Commercial strategy

Technical excellence

Market leadership

Experience

Martin is a technology professional bringing extensive experience and expertise in quantum technology research, security advisory, project management and marketing & commercial strategy. Beginning his career as a PhD researcher on applications for cutting-edge quantum communication technologies, going on to transform international organisations across a spectrum of industries in his role as a cybersecurity consultant, his strong and varied background has lead to professional and commercial success in his most recent role commercializing quantum technologies.

 
 
 
 
 

Product Manager, Quantum Sensing

ID Quantique

May 2021 – Feb 2023 Geneva, Switzerland

Turning incredible hardware into impactful quantum tech products, at the very edge of what is technically possible, by championing clarity, credibility and quality between User Applications, Sales, Marketing and R&D.

Responsibilities include:

  • Directing product strategy on the entire QSensing product portfolio
  • Driving QSensing marketing activities and promotional strategy
  • Leading and delivering product launches
  • Ideating and generating educational quantum tech content (both written and audiovisual)
  • Engaging and enabling users at conferences, trade shows and 1-1 discussions
  • Consulting with users in pre-sales and support discussions
  • Creation and dissemination of UX-enhancing user documentation
 
 
 
 
 

Consultant, Cyber Risk Services

Deloitte AG

Apr 2017 – Mar 2021 Zurich, Switzerland

Responsibilities include:

  • Managing and delivering projects on topics of Information Security, Data Privacy, Forensic Collection and Business Resilience
  • Coordinating and supporting agile sales teams
  • Supporting talent management efforts
 
 
 
 
 

Quantum Devices PhD Researcher

University of Cambridge / Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.

Oct 2013 – Mar 2017 Cambridge, United Kingdom

Responsibilities included:

  • Investigating novel semiconductor materials for metropolitan quantum network applications
  • Building and operating quantum optics experiments (e.g. a telecom-wavelength quantum teleporter)
  • Disseminating results in scientific journals publications and at international conferences, including Oxford (2014), Japan (2015) and China (2016)

Content & Media

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The ID281 Series – Continuous Operation

(November 2022) IDQ launches a new family of ID281 SNSPDs, with the best in single-photon detection getting even better.

2022 Photonic Sensing Research Digest

(September 2022) Read about some of the exciting and impactful photonic sensing work in 2022 so far, from researchers around the world.

ID Quantique honoured by Laser World of Photonics 2022 Innovation Award

(April 2022) IDQ are honoured to be winners of the Laser World of Photonics 2022 Innovation Award, in the Quantum Technologies category.

Use case: Towards a quantum internet

(August 2021) Read how IDQ single-photon detectors enabled the successful entanglement of remote quantum memories, work of paramount importance in a future-proof quantum internet.

Workshop: How to count – DIY single-photon counting

(July 2022) Workshop exploring how you can use LabVIEW with IDQ instrumentation to build and automate your single-photon experiments.

Use case: The power of entanglement

(July 2022) How does quantum entanglement go from being an interesting scientific quirk, to something useful in the real world? Read this use case, exploring some of the latest work in making and using high-performance photonic entanglement sources; for applications from scalable quantum computing to material characterization in manufacturing next-gen photonic devices.

Latest from our Labs: Parallel-pixel SNSPDs for Ultrafast and Photon-Number-Resolved Detection

(April 2022) Standard SNSPD designs are often limited to detection rates of tens of MHz at best. Read here about an innovative solution, found in the parallel-pixel detectors of IDQ’s ID281 Superconducting Nanowire Series.

Latest from our Labs: Faster SNSPDs, 24/7 operation and even better timing precision

(April 2022) Read about IDQ’s latest R&D efforts to further improve the ID281 SNSPD offering. In particular, work based on a new set of processes and detector designs is presented, providing enhanced timing precision, even faster single-photon counting, and continuous 24/7 system operation.

Workshop Series: DIY Quantum Relays – Part 2

(April 2022) In this demonstration workshop, we look at the entanglement resources you need to complete a practical Quantum Relay.

Workshop Series: DIY Quantum Relays – Part 1

(March 2022) Quantum Relays are an exciting technology, enabling long-haul quantum communication without the need for trusted-node intermediaries, as well as expanding the algorithmic repertoire available for distributed quantum computing. In this workshop, we explore some of the schemes for building a quantum relay, including the necessary components and sub-systems.

Workshop: Quantum Optics and correlation function measurements

(December 2021) In this workshop, we look at a crucial part of any quantum information researcher’s toolbox: the second- and third-order correlation functions, and how to measure them in quantum optics experiments.

Application note: High-speed superconducting detectors

(October 2021) Parallel-pixel detectors let you go beyond the speed limit set by the photon pile-up effect. In this application note, we explore how such a design is allowing IDQ’s ID281 SNSPDs to detect single photons faster than ever before.

Use case: Ultra-bright on-chip single-photon sources

(June 2021) Read how development of a state-of-the-art on-chip source of telecom-wavelength single photons—crucial for a scalable quantum internet—was made possible with IDQ SNSPDs.

Contact

  • martin@felle.tech
  • Zurich, 8045