Employment History

• University of Zurich, Institute of Physics, Switzerland
  2024 - present Senior scientist, Essentia Foundation fellow
• ETH Zurich, Department of Physics, Switzerland
  2017 - 2023 Senior researcher & Lecturer
  2016 - 2017 Postdoctoral researcher
  2009 - 2014 Doctoral student & teaching assistant
• University of Bristol, School of Physics, UK
  2014 - 2016 Postdoctoral researcher

Institutional roles

• Quantum Journal, Austria
  2016 - present Co-founder and president of the Executive Board
• Squids: Schools for Quantum Information Development, Switzerland
  2018 - present Co-founder and president
• Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
  2022 - present Visiting fellow
• Foundational Questions Institute (FQxI), US
  2021 - present Scientific Advisory Board member

Education

• 2015 PhD in Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  PhD Thesis: Resource theories of knowledge, sup. Renato Renner
• 2009 Masters in Physics, University of Aveiro, Portugal
• Masters thesis: Thermalization and entropy in graphene spin chains, sup. Renato Renner & Ricardo Dias
  Licenciatura thesis: The Kondo effect in graphene, sup. Ricardo Dias