The first time Pol Forn-Díaz heard about quantum information was during a summer course in the Aragonese Pyrenees. He hadn't long finished his degree and was completely fascinated when he heard about it. Antonio Acín, a theoretical physicist at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), talking about quantum information. Shortly after, while starting his doctorate in the Netherlands, he met research groups that were applying superconductivity, another topic that interested him, to quantum information. It was a revelation that pushed him to take a leap of faith and launch into research in this entirely new field.