Michael Cervia

Acting Assistant Professor (2026-)

Sebastian Grieninger

Acting Assistant Professor (2025-)

segrie@uw.edu

Quantum Simulation
Quantum Complexity
AdS/CFT

Xiaojun Yao

Research Assistant Professor (2022-)

xjyao@uw.edu

Open quantum systems and quantum error corrections
Quantum simulation of field theories and many-body systems
Quantum computing for transport coefficients and hydrodynamization
Quarkonia and jets in high energy collisions
Entanglement and quantum magic
Eigenstate thermalization

Dorota Grabowska

Research Assistant Professor (2022-)

Quantum Simulations of Quantum Field Theories
Elementary Particle Physics

Martin J. Savage

Professor of Physics
PI: InQubator for Quantum Simulation (IQuS)
Senior Fellow in the Institute for Nuclear Theory (on 5-year leave)

Herman Feshbach Prize for Theoretical Nuclear Physics (2026)
WSAS (2019-)
Humboldt Foundation Research Award (2012)
IBM Faculty Award (2012)
Fellow of the APS (2002-)
DOE OJI (1995)
SSC Fellow (1992)

mjs5@uw.edu

Quantum Simulations of fundamental physics
Quantum Complexity in many-body systems
Lattice QCD for Nuclei
Effective Field Theories

Silas R. Beane

Professor of Physics
Co-PI: InQubator for Quantum Simulation

silas@uw.edu

Quantum Complexity
Many-body Theory
Geometric Quantum Mechanics
Lattice Gauge Theory for Nuclear Physics
Effective Field Theory for Nuclear and Atomic Physics