Teaching and supervision

Postdocs

PhD Students

  • Ali Almasi (10/2025 - ongoing): Jointly supervised with Cambyse Rouzé.
  • Tristan Nemoz (11/2022-ongoing): Jointly supervised with Romain Alléaume.
  • Lewis Wooltorton (12/2021 - 12/2024): Jointly supervised with Roger Colbeck.
    Thesis title: Exploring the limits of device-independent quantum cryptography via self-testing.
    Currently: Postdoc at ENS de Lyon with Omar Fawzi.

Masters Students

  • Gustavo Froes Do Vale (01/25 - 08/25): The revised Peres conjecture.
  • Dorian Arnold (03/25 - 08/25): Optimization for Quantities Associated to Quantum Divergences.
  • Maissa Beji (09/24 - 01/25): Optimal POVMs for randomness generation.
  • Ali Almasi (04/24 - 08/24): Fixed point methods for quantum state discrimination.
  • Ali Almasi (09/23 - 01/24): Positive but not completely positive maps.
  • Kriss Gutierrez Anco (09/23 - 01/24): Intrinsic randomness with Renyi entropies.
  • Rola Saidi (09/23 - 01/24): Analysis of cross-talk in quantum computers.
  • Gabriel Silva Vieira de Melo (09/22 - 01/23): QSVT for quantum search.
  • Jules Dany (09/22 - 01/23): Blind randomness expansion.
  • Mohamed Bassiouny (04/21 - 07/21): Feasibility of DIQKD.
  • Uta Meyer (04/20 - 08/20): A classical entropy accumulation theorem.

Current Teaching

  • Spring (since 2026): Convex optimisation for quantum theorists (M2).
  • Spring (since 2022): Introduction to quantum information and quantum computation (M1).
  • Spring (since 2023): Quantum computing via a hackathon (L3).
  • Autumn (since 2022): Numerical analysis and optimization (M1).
  • Autumn (since 2022): A crash course in quantum information (M2).
  • Autumn (since 2024): Quantum Shannon Theory (M2).

Past Teaching

  • Autumn 2022-2023: Quantum information and quantum cryptography (M2).
  • Summer 2022-2023: PAF Group research project on quantum computing (L3).
  • Autumn 2022: ARTeQ Quantum information (1 lecture), ENS Paris-Saclay.
  • 2015-2019: TA for courses in Mathematics department, University of York: Algebra; Calculus; Applied probability; Groups, Rings and Fields; Cryptography.