About us
aQa is a team of faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and students across the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) the Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), the Leiden Institute for Chemistry (LIC), and the Leiden Mathematical Institute (MI). Please see below a list of members, along with personal research topics and contact emails.
Vedran Dunjko
Assistant Professor - LION
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Quantum chemistry and simulation
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Quantum error correction and mitigation
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Near-term implementation
Thomas O'Brien
Assistant Professor - LIACS and Research Scientist - Google Quantum AI
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Quantum machine learning
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Quantum heuristics
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Near-term implementation
Francesco Buda
Assistant Professor - LIC
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Quantum chemistry
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Hybrid algorithm development
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Excited state chemistry
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Florian Neukart
Assistant Professor - LIACS and Principal Scientist - Volkswagen Group
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Quantum optimization
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Quantum annealing
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Industrial applications
Stéphanie van der Pas
Alfons Laarman
Assistant Professor - LIACS
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Simulation of quantum computing
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Parallel computing
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Formal methods
Mathys Rennela
Postdoctoral Researcher - LIACS
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Quantum-enhanced combinatorial optimization
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Quantum reinforcement learning
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Near-term implementation
Bruno Senjean
Postdoctoral Researcher - LION
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Quantum chemistry
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Molecular embedding
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Hybrid algorithm design
Xavier Bonet-Monroig
PhD Student - LION
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Hybrid algorithm design
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Quantum error mitigation
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Near-term implementation
Alicja Dutkiewicz
Casper Gyurik
PhD Student - LIACS
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Quantum data analysis
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Quantum reinforcement learning
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Quantum-enhanced Markov chain Monte Carlo
Yaroslav Herasymenko
Charles Moussa
PhD Student - LIACS
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Near-term implementations
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Hybrid algorithm design
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Industrial applications
Michał Pacholski
Stefano Polla
Cameron Price
PhD Student - LION
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Hybrid algorithm design
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Reduced density matrix theory
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Convex optimization
Mark Steudtner
Sheir Yarkoni
PhD Student - LIACS
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Near-term implementations
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Hybrid algorithm design
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Industrial applications
