On February 26, 2026, the Master’s Program in Science and Quantum Technologies officially came to an end, offered by the Department of Physics at the University of Catania.

Four members of Technolab successfully defended their theses, marking the culmination of a year of intense work, research, and personal growth, made possible through valuable collaborations with DFA, IBM, and Thales Alenia Space.

  • Dott.ssa E. Amato, Noise signature of IBM Quantum devices detected via Classical and Quantum Machine Learning (Academic supervisor: Prof.ssa Elisabetta Paladino; Industrial supervisors: Prof. Luigi Giannelli - DFA UniCT, Dr. Luca Crippa - IBM)
  • Dott.ssa C. Corradino, Eruptive Activity Classification using Hybrid Quantum AlexNet and Sentinel-2 MSI Data (Academic supervisor: Prof.ssa Elisabetta Paladino; Industrial supervisors: Prof. Luigi Giannelli - DFA UniCT, Dr. Luca Crippa - IBM)
  • Dott.ssa F. Torrisi, Volcanic Clouds Detection through QCNN and Satellite Multispectral Imagery (Academic supervisors: Prof.ssa Elisabetta Paladino, Prof. Luigi Giannelli; Industrial supervisors: Dr. Tommaso Catuogno, Dr. Alessandro Grilli, Dr. Mattia Verducci)
  • Dott. V. Zago, Control of Decoherence in Superconducting Qubits: A Study of Dynamical Decoupling strategies within Qiskit (Academic supervisor: Prof.ssa Elisabetta Paladino; Industrial supervisors: Prof. Roberto Grimaudo - DFA UniCT) 

It was a day filled with emotions, meaningful exchange, and shared achievements, celebrating not only an important academic milestone, but also the strength of teamwork and a shared passion for scientific innovation.

Congratulations to everyone involved for this outstanding achievement and for a journey that already looks toward the future.