Principal Investigator
Dr. Mark Mitchison
Mark is an Assistant Professor in Quantum Science and Royal Society-SFI University Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. Born and raised in London, Mark obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Leeds in 2011 and his PhD from Imperial College London in 2016. He then spent the next two years carrying out postdoctoral research, first at the University of Ulm (2016-2018) and then at Trinity (2018-2021). In 2021, Mark was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Quantum Science and founded the ToCQS group at TCD. In 2022, he was awarded a University Research Fellowship and a grant from Horizon Europe to fund the Quantum Flagship project ASPECTS, of which he is the Coordinator. His research interests span mesoscopic and atomic physics, quantum optics, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, and quantum information.
PhD Researchers
Khalak Mahadeviya
Khalak received her BS-MS dual degree in July 2021 from IISER Thiruvananthapuram. For her master's thesis, she explored micromagnetics of exchange-spring magnetic thin films. She then continued her research journey as a Junior Research Fellow at IIT Gandhinagar, working on quantum heat engines and quantum optics. Khalak joined the ToCQS group in October 2022, and she is working on thermodynamic limitations in the precision of quantum devices. In particular, she is now working to implement tensor-network methods and quantum jump methods to simulate non-equilibrium thermodynamics in non-perturbative systems.
Peter O’Donovan
Peter received his BA and MSc in theoretical physics from Trinity College Dublin in 2021 and 2022. During his BA he worked on understanding quantum chaos from a holographic perspective. In his MSc thesis he used numerical methods to simulate pion-pion scattering in the non-linear sigma model. He began his PhD in September 2022 and is working on topics in quantum chaos and eigenstate thermalization. In particular, he is currently investigating how multi-time correlations can be used as a probe for quantum chaos and information scrambling in many-body systems.
Sindre Brattegard
Sindre received his MSc in physics from NTNU in Norway. In his thesis he investigated different approaches to constructing path integrals applied to spin systems. Previously he has also worked on a research project on moiré physics of double-walled carbon nanotubes at UCD. He joined the ToCQS group in March 2022, and is now working on thermometry of ultracold Fermi gases. In particular, he is investigating how the non-equilibrium dynamics of impurity probes can be used to measure temperature.
Alessandro Summer
Alessandro received a BSc and an MSc in Physics at the University of Pavia (Italy) in 2019 and 2021, respectively. The topic of his Master’s Thesis was simulating a quantum open state on a digital quantum computer, which he pursued in collaboration with EPFL (Switzerland). He started his PhD at the end of 2021 and his current topic is optimising quantum simulation methods implementing subtask on quantum computers. In particularly he is now working on a hybrid method for the Kernel Polynomial Method.
Oisín Culhane
Oisín is a PhD student from Limerick, jointly supervised by Mark Mitchison and John Goold in Trinity College Dublin. Oisín completed his undergraduate degree in Nanoscience in 2020. In the third year of his undergraduate degree, he completed a summer research project designing quantum clock models with Mark and John. He began his PhD in October 2020, joining the ToCQS group in 2021. His current research focuses on the exploration of nano thermo-electro-mechanical systems.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Saulo Moreira
Saulo is a postdoc at the ToCQS team, Trinity College Dublin. He obtained his undergraduate and master's degree from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and received his PhD from the Paris-Sorbonne Cité-Paris 7 University. He has previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Federal University of ABC and Lund University. His research interests span topics in quantum information, open quantum systems and quantum thermodynamics.