My group is embedded in Applied Quantum Algorithms (aQa), a team in Leiden with members at the institutes of physics, computer science, chemistry and mathematics. This page lists the postdocs and PhD students I supervise or co-supervise, and below them the alumni and long-term visitors. The Research page describes what we work on, and the aQa people page lists the wider team.
Dr. Julius Mildenberger (since 2025/04)
Dr. Albert Gasull Celades (since 2025/03)
Dr. Owidiusz Makuta (since 2024/11)
Dr. Pere Mujal (since 2026/09)
Dr. Jinfu Chen (since 2024/02)
Rahul Bhowmick (starting 2027/01, co-supervised with Prof. Dr. Vedran Dunjko)
Raghav Juyal (since 2026/10, main supervisor Prof. Dr. Vedran Dunjko)
Niels Pronk (since 2026/01, co-supervised with Dr. Tim Coopmans)
Francesco Paganelli (since 2025/12, co-supervised with Prof. Dr. Vedran Dunjko)
Yingjian Liu (since 2024/11, co-supervised with Dr. Stefano Polla)
Zherui Wang (since 2024/08, co-supervised with Prof. Dr. Vedran Dunjko)
Xiaoyu Liu (since 2023/09)
Eloïc Vallée (since 2022/11)
Jan Li (since 2022/11, co-supervised with Dr. Evert van Nieuwenburg)
Kshiti Sneh-Rai (since 2022/09)
Dr. Liubov Markovich
(2022/10 – 2026/09)
Postdoc at Eindhoven University of Technology from December 2026
Dr. Majid Hassani (2024/04 – 2026/03)
Dr. Stefano Polla
(2024/03 – 2026/03)
Now Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam
Dr. Patrick Emonts
(2022/05 – 2025/03)
Now a CZS Junior Research Group Leader at Ulm University
Dr. Adrián Pérez-Salinas
(2022/03 – 2025/02)
Now a Ramón y Cajal fellow at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Dr. Mengyao Hu
(Tropical Tensor Networks and Bell Inequalities: From Multipartite Nonlocality to Quantum Device Certification, 2026-06-05)
Now an Alice Postdoctoral Fellow in Valerio Scarani's group at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), National University of Singapore
Dr. Alice Barthe
(Quantum methods for machine learning and classical dynamics, 2026-03-20, co-supervised with Vedran Dunjko)
Now a Quantum Application Architect at PsiQuantum (Geneva)
Dr. David Simon Dechant
(Capturing dynamics with noisy quantum computers, 2026-02-17, co-supervised with Vedran Dunjko)
Now a postdoctoral researcher in Martin Kliesch's group at the Hamburg University of Technology
Dr. Benjamin F. Schiffer
(Algorithms and Architectures for Quantum Many-Body Simulation, 2026-02-02, co-supervised with Ignacio Cirac)
Now an Early-Career Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum, Zurich
Dr. Albert Aloy López
(Exploring quantum many-body systems from an entanglement and nonlocality perspective, 2020-07-16, co-supervised with Maciej Lewenstein)
Now a postdoctoral researcher (Beatriu de Pinós fellow) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona