Lucas Lamata


  

I am a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Facultad de Física, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.

My research up to now has been focused on quantum optics and quantum information, including pioneering proposals for quantum simulations of relativistic quantum mechanics, fermionic systems, and spin models, with trapped ions and superconducting circuits. I am also interested in new approaches to quantum simulation, and in this respect, I created, with my collaborators, the concept of digital-analog quantum simulations, which takes advantage of the scalability of analog and the versatility and universality of digital quantum devices, and may be one promising way of achieving new knowledge of quantum systems via NISQ devices in the near term. I also analyze the possibility of combining artificial intelligence and machine learning protocols with quantum devices. I enjoy working with experimentalists, and have made proposals and participated in 16 experiments in collaboration with up to 17 prominent experimental groups in quantum science, with trapped ions, electrons in Penning traps, superconducting circuits, cold atoms, quantum photonics, and nuclear magnetic resonance. More than 20 of my theoretical proposals for implementations have been carried out in experiments by top-flight groups.

Before working in Sevilla, I was a Staff Researcher (Investigador Doctor Permanente) at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain (UPV/EHU). In Bilbao I started as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow and subsequently continued with a Ramón y Cajal position. Before that, I was a Humboldt Fellow and a Max Planck postdoctoral fellow for 3 and a half years at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany. Previously, I carried out my PhD at CSIC central campus, Serrano street, Madrid, defending my Thesis at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), with an FPU predoctoral fellowship. My PhD thesis was awarded the extraordinary prize for a PhD in Physics in 2007 in UAM. I have more than 20-year research experience in centers of Spain and Germany, having performed research as well with scientific collaborations in several one- or two-week stays in centers of all continents as Harvard University, ETH Zurich, University of California Berkeley, Google Santa Barbara, University of California Santa Barbara, Google LA, Shanghai University, Tsinghua University, Macquarie University, University of Bristol, Walther-Meissner Institut Garching, University of KwaZulu-Natal, IQOQI Innsbruck, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, among others. 

I receive or have received funding from European Union, Spanish Government, Andalusian Government, and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).




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