Quantum Computing

Artur Garcia-Saez is a researcher in the CASE – Quantic research group of the BSC. He obtained his PhD at ICFO working on classical and quantum correlations. Subsequently, he has investigated at the University of Barcelona and at the Yang Institute of Theoretical Physics. His research focuses on quantum algorithms and Machine Learning.

Xavier Oriols is Professor of Electronics at the UAB and he leads the Department of Electronic Engineering, which has developed the device simulator BITLLES. He obtained his PhD at the UAB in 1999. During 1997 he worked at the Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology in Lille (France) and during 2002 he was visiting professor at the State University of New York. His research activity combines his interests in quantum nanodevices and the fundamentals of quantum mechanics in general, and Bohmian mechanics in particular, quantum nanodevices, and the foundations of quantum mechanics, in general, and in Bohmian mechanics, in particular. His research covers a broad spectrum, from fundamental questions in physics to practical electronic engineering. In 2008, he received the award for young researchers within the framework of the I3 Program in Spain and the award for excellence in research in 2008 and 2010.

After obtaining his BSc in Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 1996 and a research stay at the Instituto Leonardo Torres Quevedo (CSIC), he entered the California Institute of Technology, where he obtained his PhD in Applied Physics in 2002. After two postdoctoral stays at UIUC and LBNL, he joined the Department of Electronics Engineering at UAB as a Ramón y Cajal Researcher with a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, becomig an Associate Professor in 2009. Since his arrival at UAB he has participated in over twenty research projects, being the principal investigator in two of those. His current research interests include the development of methodologies and software based on tight-binding to obtain the electronic properties of quantum effect devices, the study of metal-2D material contacts for high frequency electronics, or thermal transport engineering in low dimensionality systems.