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- 💼 2021-Present: Senior researcher, Ramón y Cajal fellow (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
- 💼 2019-2021: Postdoctoral fellow (University of Toronto)
- 🎓 2019: PhD in quantum information (Universitat de Barcelona)
- 🎓 2015: Master in Particle Physics (Universitat de Barcelona)
- 🎓 2014: Physics degree (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Near-term quantum computing
- Quantum Machine Learning
- Machine Learning for quantum
- Quantum information
- Quantum-HPC applications
- Quantum Information in High-Energy Physics
...you work on quantum computing because...
- I'm the coordinator of the Quantum Spain project
- Co-first authored the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Computing algorithms review link to paper
- We proposed the data re-uploading method to encode classical data into quantum circuits link to paper
- Simulated the 1d Ising model with a real quantum device link to paper and I won a prize for it!
...or you work on High Performance Computing because...
- I advise the Barcelona Supercomputing Center about quantum computing infrastructure.
- I'm part of the EuroHPC-Joint Undertaking projects that integrate quantum computers into supercomputers link.
...or you work on particle physics because...
- We hypothesize that there's a Maximal Entanglement Principle that defines Nature's interactions link to paper
...or you saw me on Spanish national TV...
- Constantes y Vitales campaign "Chicas, la ciencia nos necesita" link
- Órbita Laika interview with Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón link
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Alba Cervera-Lierta is a Senior Researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. She earned her PhD in 2019 at the University of Barcelona, where she studied physics and an MSc in particle physics. After her PhD, she moved to the University of Toronto as a postdoctoral fellow at the Alán Aspuru-Guizik group. She works on near-term quantum algorithms and their applications, Quantum-HPC integration, and artificial intelligence strategies in quantum physics. Since October 2021, she has been the Quantum Spain project coordinator, an initiative to boost the quantum computing ecosystem that will acquire and operate a quantum computer at the BSC-CNS.