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 (Nasdaq: PSQL) helps organizations tackle problems that are difficult or impossible to solve with conventional computing methods alone. Founded in 2019 on Nobel Prize–winning research, Pasqal builds and operates neutral-atom quantum computers, delivered with a full software stack, for industry, science, and governments. Pasqal’s production-ready systems are available both on-premises and through the cloud, enabling organizations to harness quantum computing without requiring in-house quantum expertise. A single hardware platform supports analog workloads today and is designed to evolve toward fault-tolerant quantum computing in the future.
Headquartered in France with operations globally, Pasqal’s quantum computing systems are used by customers across energy, financial services and advanced materials to address complex challenges. Pasqal’s customers include Saudi Aramco, Crédit Agricole CIB, LG Electronics and supported by partnerships with NVIDIA and IBM (Pasqal is part of the IBM Quantum Network).
