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Below you can find a summary of my professional background.
Basics
| Name | Pedro Figueroa Romero |
| Summary | Theoretical Physicist / Quantum Information Scientist |
| pedrofigueroarom@gmail.com |
Work
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2025.05 - Present Sydney, Australia
QCVV Scientist
Silicon Quantum Computing
Development, testing and implementation of noise characterisation and mitigation strategies on near-term silicon quantum computers.
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2022.05 - 2025.05 Munich, Germany
(Senior) Quantum Engineer
IQM Quantum Computers
Scientific research, collaborative coding, technical guidance and mentoring, and advising strategic decisions regarding full-stack benchmarks and benchmarking standards
- Quantum Characterization, Verification and Validation (QCVV) theory and implementation.
- Scientific Research
- Collaborative Coding
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2021.03 - 2022.04 Taipei, Taiwan
Postdoctoral Researcher
Foxconn Technology Group
Research on characterization and benchmarking of quantum devices with temporally-correlated noise.
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2017.04 - 2021.02 Melbourne, Australia
Doctoral Researcher
Monash University
Research on the emergence and typicality of memorylessness in quantum stochastic processes
Education
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2017.04 - 2021.02 Melbourne, Australia
PhD
Monash University
Physics (Quantum Information Science - Theory)
- Thesis: Equilibration and Typicality in Quantum Processes
- Supervision: Prof. Kavan Modi & Dr. Felix A. Pollock
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2015.09 - 2016.05 Edinburgh, Scotland
MSc
The University of Edinburgh
Mathematical Physics
- Dissertation: Feynman diagram generation for color-kinematics duality
- Supervision: Prof. Donal O'Connell
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2010.09 - 2014.09 Mexico City, México
BSc
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Física
- Thesis: La geometría de los espacios (A)dS
- Supervision: Prof. Román Linares Romero
Teaching
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2021.09 - 2022.04 Taipei, Taiwan
Project supervisor
Foxconn Technology Group
Leading project with Mr. Shih-Xian Yang (currently PhD candidate at INFN in Bari, Italy)
- Investigating application of machine learning with tensor network techniques for randomized benchmarking.
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2017.11 - 2020.07 Melbourne, Australia
Teaching Associate
Monash University
Tutoring, planning and marking for undergraduate physics courses.
Languages
| Spanish | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Fluent |
| French | |
| Intermediate (B2) |
| German | |
| Basic/Intermediate (B1) |