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SUMMARY:Business and Nanotechnology -  Jean de La Verpillière &amp\; Dr F
 ernando Gonzalez Zalba
DTSTART:20181101T170000Z
DTEND:20181101T183000Z
UID:TALK113986@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:James Macdonald
DESCRIPTION:When nano dreams big: Deep-tech entrepreneurship in Cambridge"
 .\n\nJean de la Verpilliere is the cofounder of Echion Technologies\, a re
 cent spin-out company from the Engineering Department developing fast-char
 ging batteries for electric vehicles. He will share the story of Echion Te
 ch to date\, starting from a drawing in a PhD student's lab book to a fund
 ed company playing in the top league alongside multinationals. Based on th
 is journey he will share insights on how to best build a deep-tech startup
  in Cambridge and his point of view on the role of nanotechnology in the b
 attery industry.\n\nResearch at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory: New comp
 uting paradigms and biosensing.\n\nResearch at the Hitachi Cambridge Labor
 atory: New computing paradigms and biosensing.\nIn this talk\, I will intr
 oduce the research side of Hitachi Ltd. and more particularly its main veh
 icle for the exploration of fundamental physics\, the Hitachi Cambridge La
 boratory. At HCL\, we develop innovative solutions for next generation com
 puting and biosensing based on fundamental research on spintronics and qua
 ntum physics.\nFor computing we explore novel paradigms such as quantum an
 d neuromorphic computing based on silicon transistor technology and antife
 rromagnetic spintronics\, respectively. For biosensing\, we focus on reson
 ant photonic cavities in combination with selective chemistry for the dete
 ction of pathogens in human fluids.\n\nDr. Fernando Gonzalez Zalba is the 
 Head of the Quantum Information Group and Senior Research Scientist at the
  Hitachi-Cambridge Laboratory\, part of the R&D section of Hitachi Europe 
 Ltd. Moreover he is a visiting researcher at the Department of Physics and
  a Research Fellow at Hughes Hall\, University of Cambridge. Also he holds
  a Research Associateship position at University College London. He curren
 tly investigates how to reduce the energy consumption of information and c
 ommunication technologies using new electronic devices based on quantum ph
 enomena. His main line of research focuses on the development of a scalabl
 e hardware based on silicon for the processing and storage of quantum info
 rmation.\n\n
LOCATION:Rayleigh Seminar Room\, Maxwell Centre
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