Quantum batteries: The future of energy storage?

James Quach is a Science Leader at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), where he leads the Quantum Batteries team. He is the inaugural Chair of the International Conference on Quantum Energy. Previously he was a Ramsay Fellow at The University of Adelaide, a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Photonics Science in Barcelona, and a JSPS Fellow at the University of Tokyo. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne in Physics. His research interest is in all things quantum, working in quantum technology, quantum computing, quantum biology, quantum chaos, quantum thermodynamics, and quantum gravity. Giulio Cerullo is a Full Professor with the Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano, where he leads the Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy laboratory. Prof. Cerullo's research activity deals with the generation of tunable few-optical-cycle light pulses and their application to the study of ultrafast processes in (bio)-molecules and quantum confined solids. He has been General Chair of CLEO/Europe and Ultrafast Phenomena conferences. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society and of the European Physical Society and a member of Accademia dei Lincei. In 2023 he received the Quantum Electronics Prize from the European Physical Society. Tersilla Virgili is a senior researcher at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies of the National Research Council (CNR) in Milano, Italy. She graduated in Physics at the University of Bologna and got her PhD at the University of Sheffield (UK). Her scientific activity is represented by more than 90 different international publications and book contributions. Her scientific interest is mainly based on the following areas: 1) spectroscopy of organic, hybrid, and inorganic material for photonic and photovoltaic devices; 2) photophysics of organic microcavities working in weak and strong coupling regimes; and 3) organic quantum batteries.