Giuseppe Patera joined the “Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille” (USTL) as an assistant professor in 2010. He received a joint PhD at Università dell’Insubria (Como) and Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) in 2008. Recently he has participated in the development of the theory of multimode state generation in PDC with a pulse-shaped pump for both the single photon counting and the continuous variable regimes. His current research interests include spatio-temporal complexity in nonlinear optical systems and multipartite quantum entanglement.