Team

Prof. Dr. Michael Walter
Professor of Quantum Information		 E-Mail: michael.walter@rub.de
WWW: qi.rub.de/walter
Tel: +49 (0)234 32-28555
Office: MC 1.89
Janine Hein
Team Assistant		 E-Mail: janine.hein@rub.de
Tel: +49 (0)234 32-28543
Office: MC 1.88
Dr. Mahmut Levent Doğan
Postdoctoral Researcher		 E-Mail: mahmut.dogan@rub.de
Office: MC 1.85
Dr. Vladimir Lysikov
Postdoctoral Researcher		 E-Mail: vladimir.lysikov@rub.de
Office: MC 1.86
Dr. Simon Schmidt
Postdoctoral Researcher		 E-Mail: s.schmidt@rub.de
Office: MC 1.87
Maxim van den Berg
PhD Student (joint with UvA)		 E-Mail: maxim.vandenberg@rub.de
Office: MC 1.86
Alexander Kulpe
PhD Student		 E-Mail: alexander.kulpe@rub.de
WWW: alexkulpe.github.io
Office: MC 1.85
Massimo Ostuzzi
PhD Student		 E-Mail: massimo.ostuzzi@rub.de
Office: MC 0.31
Galina Pass
PhD Student (at UvA)		 E-Mail: g.pass@uva.nl
Anurudh Peduri
PhD Student		 E-Mail: anurudh.peduri@rub.de
WWW: anurudhp.github.io
Office: MC 1.87
Keiya Sakabe
PhD Student (starting soon)		 WWW: bekasa001.github.io
Tianwei Zhang
PhD Student (joint with MPI)		 E-Mail: tianwei.zhang@mpi-sp.org
Tel: +49 (0)234 32-28541
Office: MC 1.98
Maya Bach
Research Assistant		 E-Mail: maya.bach@edu.rub.de
Martin Irungu
Research Assistant		 E-Mail: martin.irungu@rub.de

Some of our group members are located at the University of Amsterdam, CWI and QuSoft.

Alumni

  • Erwin Tang (2024, BSc project on quantum query complexity)
  • Kaniuar Bacho (2024, MSc project on compiled nonlocal games without QHE; soon PhD at Edinburgh)
  • Dr. Akshay Ramachandran (2021–24, postdoc; soon tenure-track faculty)
  • Amalia Böttger (2023, MSc project on variable-time quantum algorithms)
  • Dr. Harold Nieuwboer (2019–2024, PhD student; now postdoc in Copenhagen)
  • Dr. Samuel Crew (2023–2024, postdoc; now at Imperial College London)
  • Dr. Freek Witteveen (2018–2022, PhD student; now tenure-track researcher at CWI)
  • Sebastian Marks (2022, BSc project on quantum nonlocal games and rigidity)
  • Bjarne Bouwer (2022, MSc project on investigating many-body systems on quantum computers)
  • Naga Teja Bhavya Kothakonda (2022, research internship; now PhD student at Barcelona)
  • Dr. Matteo Lostaglio (2020–21, postdoc; now researcher at PsiQuantum)
  • Valerie Bettaque (2020–21, MSc project on final states; now PhD student at Brandeis)
  • Dr. Jonas Helsen (2019–21, postdoc; now tenure-track researcher at CWI)
  • Ricardo Rivera (2020-21; MSc project; now PhD student at Slovak Academy of Sciences)
  • Tomas Bosschieter (2021, BSc project on optimal transport and machine learning; now PhD student at Stanford)
  • Friso Lohmann (2021, BSc project on quantum state tomography)
  • Dr. Yinan Li (2018-20, postdoc; now designated assistant professor at Nagoya)
  • Marten Folkertsma (2019-20, MSc project on continuous LOCC; now PhD student at CWI)
  • Laurens Ligthard (2019-20, MSc project on quantum entropy; now PhD student at Köln)
  • Maxim van den Berg (2020, BSc project on lossless audio compression)
  • Slawi Dimitrov (2020, BSc project on randomized benchmarking)
  • Emma Loos (2018-19, MSc project on cMERA and holography; now PhD student at Würzburg)
  • Jeroen Dekker (2018-19, MSc project on holographic tensor networks and smooth entropies)
  • Lars van Geest (2019, BSc project on tensor networks for the Motzkin spin chain)
  • John Paul Marceaux (2019, academic skills project on design theory)
  • Philip Verduyn Lunel (2018-19, MSc project on quantum simulations and many-body localization; now PhD student at CWI)
  • Cole Franks (2018, summer research visit; now postdoc at MIT)
  • Raja Damanik (2018, MSc project on optimality in stabilizer testing; soon PhD student at Canberra)
  • Casper Guyrik (2018, MSc project on quantum algorithms for factoring and post-quantum RSA, daily supervised by Ronald de Wolf; now PhD student at Leiden)
  • Philip Roeleveld (2018, BSc project on a truncated tensor scaling algorithm)
  • Wouter Borg (2018, BSc project on entanglement in the stabilizer formalism)