Team
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Prof. Dr. Michael Walter Professor of Quantum Information |
E-Mail: michael.walter@rub.de WWW: qi.rub.de/walter Tel: +49 (0)234 32-28555 Office: MC 1.89 |
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Janine Hein Team Assistant |
E-Mail: janine.hein@rub.de Tel: +49 (0)234 32-28543 Office: MC 1.88 |
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Dr. Samuel Crew Postdoctoral Researcher |
E-Mail: samuel.crew@rub.de WWW: samuelcrew.com Office: MC 1.86 |
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Dr. Vladimir Lysikov Postdoctoral Researcher |
E-Mail: vladimir.lysikov@rub.de Office: MC 1.86 |
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Dr. Simon Schmidt Postdoctoral Researcher |
E-Mail: Simon.Schmidt-c9a@ruhr-uni-bochum.de Office: MC 1.90 |
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Dr. Akshay Ramachandran Postdoctoral Researcher (joint with CWI) |
E-Mail: Akshay.Ramachandran@cwi.nl |
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Harold Nieuwboer PhD student |
E-Mail: h.a.nieuwboer@uva.nl WWW: han28.github.io |
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Galina Pass PhD student (joint with UvA) |
E-Mail: g.pass@uva.nl |
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Anurudh Peduri PhD student |
E-Mail: anurudh.peduri@rub.de WWW: anurudhp.github.io Tel: +49 (0)234 32-28541 Office: MC 1.87 |
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Tianwei Zhang PhD student (joint with MPI) |
E-Mail: tianwei.zhang@mpi-sp.org Office: MC 1.87 |
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Amalia Böttger MSc student |
E-Mail: meret.boettger@rub.de |
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Luca Witt BSc student & research assistant |
E-Mail: luca.witt@rub.de |
Some of our group members are located at the University of Amsterdam, CWI and QuSoft.
Alumni
- Dr. Freek Witteveen (2018–2022, PhD student; now postdoc in Copenhagen)
- Naga Teja Bhavya Kothakonda (2022, research internship; now PhD student at Barcelona)
- Dr. Matteo Lostaglio (2020–21, postdoc; now researcher at PsiQuantum)
- Valerie Bettaque (2020–21, MSc project on final states; now PhD student at Brandeis)
- Dr. Jonas Helsen (2019–21, postdoc; now tenure-track researcher at CWI)
- Ricardo Rivera (2020-21; MSc project; now PhD student at Slovak Academy of Sciences)
- Tomas Bosschieter (2021, BSc project on optimal transport and machine learning; now PhD student at Stanford)
- Friso Lohmann (2021, BSc project on quantum state tomography)
- Dr. Yinan Li (2018-20, postdoc; now designated assistant professor at Nagoya)
- Marten Folkertsma (2019-20, MSc project on continuous LOCC; now PhD student at CWI)
- Laurens Ligthard (2019-20, MSc project on quantum entropy; now PhD student at Köln)
- Maxim van den Berg (2020, BSc project on lossless audio compression)
- Slawi Dimitrov (2020, BSc project on randomized benchmarking)
- Emma Loos (2018-19, MSc project on cMERA and holography; now PhD student at Würzburg)
- Jeroen Dekker (2018-19, MSc project on holographic tensor networks and smooth entropies)
- Lars van Geest (2019, BSc project on tensor networks for the Motzkin spin chain)
- John Paul Marceaux (2019, academic skills project on design theory)
- Philip Verduyn Lunel (2018-19, MSc project on quantum simulations and many-body localization; now PhD student at CWI)
- Cole Franks (2018, summer research visit; now postdoc at MIT)
- Raja Damanik (2018, MSc project on optimality in stabilizer testing; soon PhD student at Canberra)
- Casper Guyrik (2018, MSc project on quantum algorithms for factoring and post-quantum RSA, daily supervised by Ronald de Wolf; now PhD student at Leiden)
- Philip Roeleveld (2018, BSc project on a truncated tensor scaling algorithm)
- Wouter Borg (2018, BSc project on entanglement in the stabilizer formalism)