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• Ikerbasque Research Professor at DIPC
• Co-Founder & CSO, Multiverse Computing
Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)
Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4
20018 San Sebastián (Guipuzkoa), Spain
roman.orus@multiversecomputing.com
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: Co-Founder and CSO of Multiverse Computing (San Sebastián, Spain & Toronto, Canada).
• 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.
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Some Tutorial Talks
• Santander (Spain), (2019), round table on quantum technologies (youtube)
• Barcelona (Spain), (2019), on physics and linguistics (facebook streaming)
• 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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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, DFG, the Spanish Ministry of Science, and the Basque Government.
