Antoine Browaeys awarded the CNRS Médaille d’Argent 2021
Paris, March 3, 2021– Pasqal’s Chief Science Officer, Antoine Browaeys, was awarded this year’s Médaille d’Argent (Silver Medal) from CNRS, the French National Centre for Scientific Research. This prestigious award “recognises researchers for the originality, quality and importance of their work, recognised nationally and internationally.”
Antoine Browaeys, recipient of the Médaille d’argent du CNRS 2021.
Antoine is a researcher at the Charles Fabry laboratory and he co-founded Pasqal in March 2019. This medal acknowledges his work on trapped individual atoms, optical tweezer arrays and Rydberg atoms, which lies at the core of Pasqal’s technology.
Pasqal is leading the industrialization and deployment of neutral-atom quantum computing, transforming Nobel Prize-winning research into real-world solutions for industry, science, and governments. Since 2019, the company has built high-performance quantum systems and cloud-ready software that tackle the world’s most complex challenges in optimization, simulation, and AI. With a truly global footprint — including teams and facilities across Europe, North America, and Asia — and backed by over $215 million from international investors, Pasqal is accelerating the adoption of robust, high-performance quantum computing.
