José Ramón Martínez Saavedra
VP of Innovation · Quside Technologies
Barcelona, Spain
I build deployable quantum-randomness infrastructure for cybersecurity, high-performance computing, and post-quantum systems — taking quantum physics from the lab to real-world products.
VP of Innovation and Lead Scientist at Quside Technologies. PI of €5.6M+ in competitive R&D funding (Horizon Europe/EIC, CDTI). Co-inventor of 8 patent families (US, EP, CN, JP); I also oversee Quside’s IP portfolio of 30+ patent families.
At Quside I lead R&D strategy and technology transfer — from quantum random number generators to post-quantum cryptography stacks and entropy infrastructure at scale. I bridge the gap between our photonics hardware and the software and systems that make it deployable.
Ph.D. in Photonics (UPC/ICFO, 2018, Cum Laude; advisor: F. J. García de Abajo). MBA (Valar Institute, 2025). Physics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Currently pursuing a Law degree (UOC) at the intersection of technology, IP, and regulation.
I teach Software Architecture for Quantum Computers at UPC, supervise doctoral theses at UPC and ICFO, and build open educational tools like NanophotonicsLab and El Fotonario (in Spanish).
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| Jul 03, 2026 | Gave an invited seminar — How AI is Transforming Scientific Research — at Universidad de Deusto (Faculty of Health Sciences, in Spanish): AI tools for literature discovery, summarization, data analysis, and academic writing, with live demos. Handout. |
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| Jun 09, 2026 | Launched NanophotonicsLab — an open, browser-based nanophotonics simulation toolkit covering Mie scattering, plasmonics, RCWA, beam propagation, and more. No installation required. |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Launched two outreach projects: El Fotonario — an interactive photonics course in Spanish — and Con la Venia — a visual novel (in Spanish) for learning civil procedural law. |
| Mar 08, 2026 | New preprint: Lindbladian Learning with Neural Differential Equations with T. Heightman, R. Aseguinolaza Gallo, E. Jiang, A. Acín, and M. Płodzień. arXiv:2603.07778 |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Quside and Coherent demonstrated a scalable, mass-manufacturable quantum entropy source — Coherent’s 6″ VCSEL production combined with Quside’s quantum random number generation, with runtime entropy verification — shown live with development kits at Photonics West 2026. |