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Daniele Dequal

Daniele Dequal is System Engineer for the EuroQCI program of the Connectivity and Secure Communication Directorate (CSC) at the European Space Agency (ESA). 
Since 2013 Daniele has been active in the research field of satellite quantum communication, formerly at Padua University and subsequently as a researcher at the Italian Space Agency. During this 10-years activity he participated in the first experimental demonstration of satellite-to-ground quantum communication, the first single photon transmission from MEO orbit and later from GNSS orbit, and to the development of the first Italian Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) receiver for satellite applications. 
In 2023, he joined ESA as a System Engineer working for the IRIS2 program first (Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite) and later SAGA (Security And cryptoGrAphic mission) and EuroQCI (European Quantum Communication Infrastructure) as a QKD expert. 
Daniele received his M.S. in Physics at the University of Padua in 2009 and his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Padua in 2013.

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