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• Ikerbasque Research Professor at DIPC
• Co-Founder & CTO, Multiverse Computing SL
• Partner of Entanglement Partners SL
Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)
Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4
20018 San Sebastián (Guipuzkoa), Spain
Phone: +34 943 01 89 61
Fax: +34 943 01 56 00
Skype: roman.orus
Quick bio:
• September 2018 – Today: Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Donostia International Physics Center, DIPC (San Sebastián, Spain).
• January 2019 – Today: Visiting Professor at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, BSC (Barcelona, Spain).
• February 2019 – Today: Founder and CTO of Multiverse Computing SL (San Sebastián, Spain).
• October 2017 – Today: Partner and advisory board member of Entanglement Partners SL (Barcelona, Spain).
• October 2017 – Today: Scientific advisor, Quantum for Quants, Quantum World Association (Barcelona, Spain).
• April 2013 - August 2018: Junior Professor (W1) in Condensed Matter Theory at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz (Mainz, Germany), in the KOMET 337 group.
• April – May 2018: visiting Professor, Donostia International Physics Center, DIPC (San Sebastián, Spain).
• March – April 2017: visiting Professor, Donostia International Physics Center, DIPC (San Sebastián, Spain).
• March – April 2016: visiting Professor, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université Paul Sabatier – CNRS (Toulouse, France).
• December 2010 – March 2013: postdoctoral research fellow (Marie Curie) at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany), in the Theory Division led by Prof. Ignacio Cirac.
• September 2006 – November 2010: postdoctoral research fellow (ARC) at The University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia), in the group of Entanglement, Many-body Systems & Simulations led by Prof. Guifre Vidal.
• July 2006: PhD in Physics at the University of Barcelona (Spain) under the supervision of Prof. Jose I. Latorre.
Quick curiosities:
• I was born in Barcelona. I like playing my guitars, diving, hiking, playing basketball, traveling, cooking and thinking. And I also like coffee, specially this one.
• You can get my PhD thesis here.
• My GOOGLE SCHOLAR profile.
• My LINKEDIN profile.
• My IKERBASQUE profile.
• My RESEARCHER-ID:
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Outreach and Media
• An interview for Basque newspaper Berria, on quantum computing (in Basque).
• Highlight of DIPC-BSC agreement, El Diario Vasco, La Vanguardia (in Spanish).
• Highlight of Multiverse Computing in Expansión (in Spanish).
• Medium article on predicting financial crashes with quantum computing.
• Medium article on quantum computing for finance.
• Open Access Government article on quantum complex systems.
• Scientia article on quantum complex systems.
• An interview about a workshop I organized in Benasque for Aragón Radio (in Spanish, minute 34:20)
• Highlight in Quanta Magazine
• An interview for the popular science youtube channel Benasque ConCiencia, together with David Perez-Garcia (in Spanish)
• Some of my work was highlighted in the popular science blog ScienceNews: part 1 and part 2
• An interview about a workshop I organized in Benasque for Radio Huesca, Cadena Ser (in Spanish)
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Recently Organized Events
• LatorreFest (Barcelona, May 31st 2019)
• Entanglement in strongly correlated systems (Benasque, February 24 – March 9 2019)
• Entanglement in strongly correlated systems (Benasque, February 18 – March 3 2018)
• Entanglement in strongly correlated systems (Benasque, February 5-18 2017)
• Entanglement in strongly correlated systems (Benasque, February 14-27 2016)
• Perspectives on Quantum Many-Body Entanglement (Mainz, September 25-27 2013)
• Networking tensor networks: many-body systems and simulations (Benasque, May 7-19 2012)
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Some Tutorial Talks
• Frankfurt (Germany), (2018) on quantum computing for finance (youtube, min 80).
• Ghent (Belgium) (2017) – blackboard on PEPS & computer exercises -.
• APCTP (Korea) (2017): part 1 (blackboard), part 2 (slides).
• DIPC (San Sebastian) & Les Houches (France) (2017).
• Kashiwa (Japan) (2016): part 1 (youtube), part 2 (youtube), part 2 (slides)
• Southampton (UK) (2016): part 1, part 2
• Les Houches (France) (2014).
• Taipei (taiwan) (2012) – also in youtube! –
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Some Tutorial Documents
• Tensor Networks for Complex Quantum Systems
• Advances on tensor network theory: symmetries, fermions, entanglement, and holography
• A practical introduction to some topics on Tensor Networks
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Supervised theses
• Augustine Kshetrimayum (PhD, JGU, 2018): Quantum many-body systems and Tensor Network algorithms
• Philipp Schmoll (Master, JGU, 2016): Exact tensor network states for the Kitaev honeycomb model
• Kai Zapp (Master, JGU, 2015): MPS for lattice gauge theories
• Jacob Jordan (PhD, UQ, 2011): Studies of infinite two-dimensional quantum lattice systems with PEPS
• David Evans (Honors, UQ, 2009): Study of the TEBD algorithm to simulate quantum many-body systems in one spatial dimension
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Funding
Research funding is acknowledged from Ikerbasque, DIPC and DFG.
