Dr. F. Anza, Principal Investigator
I started my research path while earning my bachelor’s degree. Since then, I have constantly explored various areas of modern theoretical physics. I have worked in Mathematical Physics, Particle Physics, Gravitational Physics, Statistical Mechanics, and Quantum Information Science.
After a PhD at the Frontiers of Quantum Physics group led by Vlatko Vedral at the University of Oxford, in 2018, I became a “Power of Information” Templeton Independent Research Fellow at the Complexity Sciences Center, University of California, Davis, led by James Crutchfield. In 2021, I was hired by the “InQubator for Quantum Simulations”, led by Martin Savage, at the University of Washington.
In 2022 I took a year-long career break to support my wife’s academic career.
At that time, I co-founded Kernel Science, a company that delivers highly specialized R&D and data analysis services. In 2023 I resumed my academic path with a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Mathematics, University of Trieste.
In 2024, I was hired by UMBC to lead a research group focused on Theoretical Aspects of Quantum Information Science.
Cameron Hahn, PhD Student
Cameron is the first student to join the Complex Quantum Systems group officially! His work will be at the interface of the physics of complex quantum systems and the foundations of quantum thermalization.
Lodovico Scarpa, D.Phil. Student
Lodovico is an Affiliate graduate student from the Atomic and Laser Physics Division of the Department of Physics, University of Oxford.
He is focused on Observable Statistical Mechanics, a new theoretical framework I originally built to study the foundations of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Thanks to him, we now understand the generic solution to the equilibrium equations of OSM and he has shown that we should expect OSM to be true in a whole class of cases: one-dimensional interacting spin-1/2 systems with local Hamiltonians.
