Jordi Tura

Lorentz Center workshop, 30 November to 4 December 2026

With Kshiti Sneh-Rai, Štěpán Šmíd, Roberto Bondesan and Mario Berta, I am organising Certification of Quantum Many-body Physics at the Lorentz Center in Leiden. The week is about which properties of quantum many-body systems we can establish with efficient and rigorous methods. Topics include semidefinite programming, tensor networks, Hamiltonian complexity and quantum Gibbs sampling.

Available Ph.D. or Postdoc Positions

For available Ph.D. or Postdoc positions, please check the group webpage.

Coming with your own funding can be discussed: for instance, if you come from Germany and want to do a postdoc, you can consider the Feodor Lynen Fellowship (as I am an Alexander von Humboldt alumnus).

PhD defences in 2026

Four PhD students I supervised or co-supervised defended their theses in 2026: Benjamin Schiffer in February (co-supervised with Ignacio Cirac at MPQ), David Dechant in February and Alice Barthe in March (both co-supervised with Vedran Dunjko), and Mengyao Hu in June. Congratulations to all four! Their theses, and where each of them went next, are on the Group page.

Ius promovendi at Leiden

I have held the ius promovendi at Leiden University since 22 September 2026, so I can now act as promotor of my own PhD students.

QCTiP 2027 in Leiden, 12 to 14 April 2027

Quantum Computing Theory in Practice (QCTiP 2027) comes to Leiden. I am one of the local organisers, with Vedran Dunjko, Stefano Polla, Anastasiia Skurativska and Julius Mildenberger, and I sit on the QCTiP Steering Committee. The conference site has the details and a mailing list for when registration opens.

AMALUQS awarded Dutch-Japanese grant

The Dutch-Japanese project AMALUQS: Advancing Machine Learning using Quantum Features has received funding through the NWO-JST call Unconventional information processing technologies. The consortium brings together five principal investigators from Leiden University, TU Delft, Osaka University, and Kyoto University, complemented by experimental quantum-hardware expertise from Osaka/QIQB.

AMALUQS explores how small-scale quantum computers can support artificial intelligence by acting as smart data processors. Rather than using quantum computers to replace classical ones, the project studies how quantum devices can generate quantum features that help classical machine-learning systems discover patterns and make predictions more effectively. Read the Leiden University news item.