Riccardo Manenti is a Lead Quantum Engineer at Rigetti Computing, where he has been working for nine years on the design and calibration of superconducting quantum computers. He obtained his PhD from the University of Oxford and is co-author of a university textbook entitled Quantum Information Science, published by Oxford University Press. Recognised in the Forbes Under 30 and Fortune Under 40 lists, he works at Rigettiās branch in Italy.