Laura Bovo

Laura brings together a unique set of skills that include academic experience in QT research, QT ecosystem development and external partnership building with industry and government. Her focus is on developing inclusive strategic innovation partnerships between UCL, companies and civic partners that use digital or operational technologies, especially transformational technologies that will enable societal and economic impact. She specialises in quantum technologies, the space sector, sustainable chemistry, clean energy and applied physics in medicine; with a clear focus on championing DEI principles and practice.

She is leading on behalf of UCL, and the consortium partners, on the development of the London Quantum Cluster and the curation of its quantum innovation ecosystem.

Laura is a chemist by training, with almost a decade’s experience of academic research in magnetism. She holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Padova, Italy, and worked as a researcher at the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL from 2011 to 2018. She joined UCL Innovation & Enterprise in 2018, where before her current role, she was responsible for supporting a range of innovation-related programmes, including innovation networks across different disciplines at UCL.