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Dr Djeylan Aktas is head of the experimental photonics quantum communication group at the Institute of Physics of Slovak Academy of Sciences (IPSAS) in Bratislava. He received his diploma in fundamental physics from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in 2011. In 2016 he has obtained a PhD in experimental quantum photonics while working at the INPHYNI within the QPI team gaining a wide knowledge in designing complex photonics experiments for fundamental tests or applications in quantum communication and sensing. After that, he became Senior Research Associate in the quantum communication team at QETLabs in Bristol leading the work on the development of integrated photonics devices for quantum networks. After his involvement in the first phase of the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, he became co-investigator in the phase 2 and he participated in the international collaborative research program on quantum technologies funded by Innovate UK and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Awarded the SASPRO fellowship in 2021 and principal investigator for the EuroQCI DIGITAL project, he is now in charge of developing the national quantum key distribution network in Slovakia.