OrangeQS is proud to present the first recipients of the Oranje Quantum Catalyst Award, a Quantum Delta NL ecosystem award celebrating early career scientists or engineers who accelerate innovation in quantum technology by connecting academic excellence with industrial relevance.
The 2025 edition marks the founding year of the award and is initiated and sponsored by Orange Quantum Systems. This year’s focus is on quantum testing technologies that drive the scalability and reliability of quantum hardware.
Picture of Tim Vroomans, Adriaan Rol and Santiago Vallés Sanclemente
Award Criteria
- Industry relevance through contributions supporting the exponential roadmap for testing scalable quantum hardware
- Academic relevance through scientifically rigorous work that advances the understanding of quantum systems
- Personal profile reflecting emerging leadership within the Dutch quantum ecosystem
2025 Award Winners
We congratulate Tim Vroomans and Santiago Vallés Sanclemente, PhD candidates at the DiCarlo Lab at QuTech, whose contributions include
- Developing protocols to test tunable couplers and improving open-source tools such as Quantify and OrangeQS Juice
- Enabling high fidelity two qubit gates while mitigating spectator effects, published as arXiv 2503.13225v1
- Supporting Quantum Delta NL projects DiagnostiQ and HectoQubit/2, highlighting the impact of emerging talent in national quantum innovation
OrangeQS is honored to support this recognition at the heart of the Dutch quantum ecosystem. We also continue our collaboration with the DiCarlo Lab through the PAC-QC project.
