Our Team
Faculty
Martin J. Savage
Professor of Physics
PI: InQubator for Quantum Simulation (IQuS)
Senior Fellow in the Institute for Nuclear Theory (on 5-year leave)
mjs5@uw.edu
Quantum Simulations of Standard Model physics
Entanglement in many-body systems, neutrinos, and strong interactions
Lattice QCD for Nuclei
Effective Field Theories
Silas R. Beane
Professor of Physics
Co-PI: InQubator for Quantum Simulation
silas@uw.edu
Entanglement in Few-Body Systems
Geometric Quantum Mechanics
Lattice Gauge Theory for Nuclear Physics
Effective Field Theory for Nuclear and Atomic Physics
Dorota Grabowska
Research Assistant Professor (2022-)
Quantum Simulations of Quantum Field Theories
Elementary Particle Physics
David B. Kaplan
Senior Fellow in the Institute for Nuclear Theory
Professor of Physics
Co-PI: InQubator for Quantum Simulation
dbkaplan@uw.edu | (206) 685-3546
Entanglement and Symmetries
Lattice gauge field theory for classical computing and quantum devices
Kenneth Roche
Affiliate Associate Professor
Staff Scientist @ PNNL
k8r@uw.edu
High Performance Computing
Quantum Monte Carlo
Fundamentals of Computing
Quantum many-body simulations
Xiaojun Yao
Research Assistant Professor (2022-)
xjyao@uw.edu
Open quantum systems
Quantum simulation of lattice gauge theory
Quarkonia and jets in high energy collisions
Eigenstate thermalization
Postdoctoral Fellows
Marc Illa Subina
QSC Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-)
marcilla@uw.edu
Quantum Simulations of the Standard Model Physics
Lattice Gauge Theories
Low-energy nuclear physics with lattice QCD
Simulation of entanglement in dense systems of neutrinos
Saurabh Vasant Kadam
FermiLab HEP QuantISED Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-)
ksaurabh@uw.edu
Hamiltonian Formulation of Lattice Gauge Theories
Quantum Simulation of Quantum Field Theories
Visitors
Jiunn-Wei Chen
Professor of Physics
National Taiwan University
Quantum Information for Fundamental Physics
Effective Field Theory
Robert Malaney
Professor of Engineering,
University of New South Wales, Australia
Quantum Communication and Security
Students
Ramya Bhaskar
PhD student
Simulation of Quantum Spin Systems and Field Theories
Dense neutrino systems
Henry Froland
PhD student
frolandh@uw.edu
Quantum Simulation
Entanglement in Quantum Field Theory
Thermalization and Complexity
Random Measurement Protocols
Jeremy Hartse
PhD student
jhartse@uw.edu
Quantum Information and Simulation
Quantum Many-Body Scars
Lattice Gauge Theories
Zhiyao Li
PhD Student
Quantum Information
Sarah Powell
Ph.D. student
Quantum simulation of quantum field theories
Nikita Zemlevskiy
PhD student
Quantum Information
Quantum simulation of scalar field theories
Systematic error simulation for analog quantum simulation
Administration
Katie Hennessey
IQuS Administrator
kgh@uw.edu
Affiliates
Boris Blinov
Professor of Physics, UW
blinov@uw.edu
Trapped ion quantum computing and simulation
Deep Gupta
Professor of Physics, UW
deepg@uw.edu
"Ultra-Cold Atom and Quantum Gas Experiments
Quantum Dynamics and Simulation
Atom Interferometry"
Francesco Pederiva
Professor of Physics at the University of Trento,
and Director of TIFPA
Quantum Monte Carlo
Quantum many-body systems
Nuclei and reactions
Quantum Simulations of strongly-correlated systems
Simulations and predictions for Corona-Virus propagation
Caroline Robin
Professor in the Fakultät für Physik
Universität Bielefeld
Entanglement in Nuclear Structure
Quantum simulation of light nuclei
Liudmila Zhukas
Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University
lzhukas@uw.edu
Trapped Ion quantum computing
Quantum Simulation
Alumni
Fabio Anza
Research Assistant Professor (2020-2022)
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland-Baltimore (2024-)
fanza@uw.edu
Quantum Thermodynamics
Entanglement
Quantum Information
Emma Beane
Visitor (Spring 2023)
Undergraduate, University of Chicago (2023-)
Quantum Information and Quantum Computing
Stephan Caspar
IQuS-FermiLab Quantized Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2023)
Bose-Einstein condensation
Chern-Simons-Yang-Mills lattice models
Ivan Chernyshev
PhD student (2021-2025)
Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2025-)
Quantum Simulation
VQE for QCD Hamiltonian
Quantum simulations of neutrino flavor dynamics
Anthony Ciavarella
IQuS-PhD Student (2017-2023)
Postdoctoral Fellow LBNL HEP
Quantum Simulation of Field Theories
Peter Ehlers
PhD Student (2017-2022)
Postdoctoral Fellow UofA (2023-)
Entanglement in QFT
Roland Farrell
PhD Student
Dubridge Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantum Information at Caltech (2024-)
Entanglement in QFT
Simulations of 1+1D QCD and Weak Decays
Natalie Klco
Burke Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech (2019-2022)
Assistant Professor of Physics, Duke University (2022-present)
Niklas Mueller
Research Assistant Professor (2022-2025)
Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (2025-)
niklasmu@uw.edu
Quantum Simulation and algorithms
Entanglement Structure and Tomography
Thermalization and Non-equilibrium phenomena
Topological Phases
Abhishek Rajput
Joint IQuS-Toronto PhD student (2018-2023)
PhaseCraft (UK) (2023-)
Quantum Simulation of field theories
Alessandro Roggero
Research Assistant Professor (2018-2021)
Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Trento
Quantum Simulation of inelastic nuclear processes
Neutrinos in dense matter
Quantum Computing and Algorithms
Quantum Monte Carlo
Effective Field Theory
Hersh Singh
FermiLab Quantized Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2023)
Postdoctoral Fellow at FermiLab (2023-)
hershsg@uw.edu
Spin Systems
Quantum Algorithms
Quantum Computing
Jesse Stryker
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland (2020-2023)
Postdoctoral Fellow at LBNL HEP (2023-present)
Francesco Turro
Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024)
Leonardo Quantum Technologies (Italy) (2024-)
Quantum Simulation of few-nucleon systems
SRF-cavity quantum simulations
Classical preparation of time-evolution operators
