Leonardo Banchi is an Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics of Matter at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Florence, Firenze, Italy. Previously, he worked at ISI foundation (Torino), University College London and Imperial College London (UK), and also in the industry, at Xanadu Inc. (Toronto, Canada). Leonardo Banchi's main research interests are quantum algorithms for simulating many-body physics and machine learning, quantum sensing and learning, quantum information and communication theory.