Mr Mirko Consiglio has been chosen as the University of Malta’s representative for the 2024 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

This meeting is a regular opportunity for researchers to network and become the research leaders of tomorrow.

Mr Consiglio is a theoretical physicist and enthusiastic programmer with expertise in quantum algorithms, optimisation and entanglement. His research has already appeared in conferences and peer-reviewed journals both locally and abroad.

He is currently a Research Support Officer at UM within the Department of Communications & Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Information & Communication Technology. He is working on reinforcement learning for quantum optimal control, research that has implications for many different quantum technologies that could revolutionise our world. 

Mr Consiglio will be joined by Dr Julian Bonello who is a Scientific Officer at the Department of Physics. Dr Bonello was the University of Malta’s representative for the 2019 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting and is attending this year since in-person participation was limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic that year. 

The Lindau Nobel Laureates Meetings have been taking place since 1951, when two leading physicists at the time convinced Count Lennart Bernadotte af Wisborg as a member of the Swedish royal family to bring together seven recent Nobel laureates to Lindau in southern Germany. The annual event has since grown to host over 40 Nobel laureates and 600 young researchers from across the world. The aim of these meetings is to bring together early-stage researchers from different generations and cultural backgrounds and to promote exchanges with Nobel laureates in their respective fields.