Radu Ionicioiu
Senior Researcher I
Department of Theoretical Physics
Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)
Romania
Biography
He was awarded with PhD., from University of Cambridge in the year 1999. He graduated from University of Bucharest (MSc 1991). Between 1993-1994 he took the Part III of the Math Tripos in Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), Cambridge. After a PhD in quantum gravity (Cambridge 1999), he moved to the newly born field of quantum information. His first postdoc was in Cambridge Engineering Department where he proposed a novel implementation for quantum computing with flying qubits in quantum wires. In 2000 he moved to Paolo Zanardi's group at ISI, Torino. Here he worked on several topics, from solid-state implementations for quantum computing, spintronics and topological gates to topological entanglement in Kitaev model. From Italy he moved to Hewlett-Packard Labs in Bristol. After 3 years, 4 patents and missing the sunny Italy, he landed in Sydney, Australia. Here he proposed (with D. Terno) a quantum version of Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment, just before moving (again) to IQC, Waterloo. From January 2013 he am a Senior Researcher in the Department of Theoretical Physics, IFIN-HH.
Research Interest
quantum foundations, quantum information, quantum computation
