Romain Alléaume graduated from ENS Paris in 2002 and from Télécom Paris in 2004. He completed his PhD, from Paris VI University in 2004 and was co-recipient of “magazine La Recherche” scientific prize. He then joined Telecom Paris and coordinated the activity on QKD performed within the European FP6 project SECOQC. Romain Alléaume co-founded the start-up company SeQureNet that developed, and successfully commercialized the first continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) system in 2013. Currently he is actively involved in the European Quantum Technology Flagship (OpenQKD, Quantum Secure Network Partnership), the EuroQCI program (ParisRegionQCI, FranceQCI) as well as in French PEPR Quantique (QCommTestbed). He is leading a research activity on quantum and classical cryptography, quantum networks and photonic quantum information processing as well as on cross-disciplinary topics linking quantum information with cryptography, photonics and security.