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 - LIACS

• Quantum machine learning

• Quantum heuristics

• Near-term implementation

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Jordi Tura

Assistant Professor - LION

• Quantum algorithms

• Near-term implementations

• Device-independent quantum information protocols

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Thomas Bäck

Professor - LIACS

• Natural computing

• Optimization for quantum computing

• Quantum-enhanced optimization

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Thomas O'Brien

Assistant Professor - LION and Research Scientist - Google Quantum AI

• Quantum chemistry and simulation

• Quantum error correction and mitigation

• Near-term implementation

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Florian Neukart

Assistant Professor - LIACS and Principal Scientist - Volkswagen Group

• Quantum optimization

• Quantum annealing

• Industrial applications

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Francesco Buda

Assistant Professor - LIC

• Quantum chemistry

• Hybrid algorithm development

• Excited state chemistry

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Stéphanie van der Pas

Assistant Professor - MI

• Quantum state tomography

• Bayesian statistics

• Causality

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Alfons Laarman

Assistant Professor - LIACS

• Simulation of quantum computing

• Parallel computing

• Formal methods

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Bruno Senjean

Postdoctoral Researcher - LION

• Quantum chemistry

• Molecular embedding

• Hybrid algorithm design

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Mathys Rennela

Postdoctoral Researcher - LIACS

• Quantum-enhanced combinatorial optimization

• Quantum reinforcement learning

• Near-term implementation

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Alicja Dutkiewicz

Masters Student - LION

• Quantum simulation

• Quantum phase estimation

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Eleanor Scerri

Postdoctoral Researcher - LION

• Quantum chemistry and simulation

• Quantum machine learning

• Near-term implementation

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Yaroslav Herasymenko

PhD Student - LION

• Quantum simulation

• Hybrid algorithm design

• Quantum transport

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Xavier Bonet-Monroig

PhD Student - LION

• Hybrid algorithm design

• Quantum error mitigation

• Near-term implementation

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Casper Gyurik

PhD Student - LIACS

• Quantum data analysis

• Quantum reinforcement learning

• Quantum-enhanced Markov chain Monte Carlo

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Michał Pacholski

PhD Student - LION

• Hybrid algorithm design

• Near-term implementations

• Quantum transport

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Cameron Price

PhD Student - LION

• Hybrid algorithm design

• Reduced density matrix theory

• Convex optimization

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Charles Moussa

PhD Student - LIACS

• Near-term implementations

• Hybrid algorithm design

• Industrial applications

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Stefano Polla

PhD Student - LION

• Quantum simulation

• Hybrid algorithm design

• Near-term implementation

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Sheir Yarkoni

PhD Student - LIACS

• Near-term implementations

• Hybrid algorithm design

• Industrial applications