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 a leader in the industrialization of neutral-atom quantum computing, transforming Nobel Prize-winning research into real-world solutions for industry, science, and governments. Since its founding in 2019, Pasqal has built high-performance quantum systems and cloud-ready software designed to address complex challenges in optimization, simulation, and artificial intelligence.
Pasqal, headquartered in France, employs over 275 people and serves over 25 clients, including CMA CGM, OVHcloud, Thales, IBM (Pasqal is part of the IBM Quantum Network), and Sumitomo. Backed by more than USD 300 million to date in total funding from international investors, Pasqal seeks to accelerate the adoption of scalable, high-performance quantum computing worldwide.
