| Apr 28, 2026 | 🎓 Today I successfully defended my dissertation with the title End-to-End Quantum Circuit Optimization using ZX-Calculus in the Parallel Computing and Optimisation at the University of Luxembourg [more info] [slides]. |
| Feb 02, 2026 | 💻 I had the honour to present our paper A Review on Quantum Circuit Optimization using ZX-Calculus at the ZX seminar and introduce our ZX-Benchmark framework to public [more info] [slides] [framework]. |
| Dec 17, 2025 | 🎉 💒 We got married today! |
| Dec 01, 2025 | 💻 Today I gave a lecture that introduces the ZX-Calculus to Marko Rancic’s students in his Quantum Algorithms course [slides]. |
| Nov 26, 2025 | The Winter Community Event of my funding instrument (IAS Luxembourg) took place today. I enjoyed catching up with friends and colleagues from different fields. However, the talk about Linked Open Data by Prof. Joëlle Weis inspired me to investigate how I can make my data sets reusable by other researchers. She demonstrated how Linked Open Data is of particular use for interdisciplinary research on the example of wine labels and coat of arms. The website to the project can be found [here]. |
| Nov 24, 2025 | 🎉 The paper How protein hydration depends on amino acid composition, peptide conformation, and force fields just got accepted! During my Master time I had a chance to investigate the hydration shell structure of intrinsically disordered proteins. A big thanks to Johanna-Barbara Linse and Jochen Hub for the opportunity to learn from them [more info]. |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Welcome to Fabio Pereira Alves who joins as a research assistant, working on a benchmarking framework for ZX-based optimization techniques. |
| Sep 25, 2025 | 📝 I submitted my survey paper A Review on Quantum Circuit Optimization using ZX-Calculus to arXiv. It introduces ZX-based quantum circuit optimization for researchers in the field of quantum computing and combinatorial optimization. Furthermore, it provides a comprehensive overview of existing ZX-based quantum circuit optimization techniques [more info]. |
| Sep 15, 2025 | 👨🏫 Started teaching Mathématiques discrètes I to first semester computer science students. |
| Sep 01, 2025 | 🎉 I attended the EQAI summer school in Lignano Sabbiadoro on Quantum Machine Learning. My poster Exhaustive Search for Quantum Circuit Optimization using ZX-Calculus received a honorable mention [more info] [poster]. |
| Jun 15, 2025 | 💻 I presented an update of my work on ZX-based quantum circuit optimization with a focus on new heuristics and multiobjective optimization [slides]. |
| Jun 06, 2025 | 👨🏫 Today I had the pleasure to attend the FPGA computing course with Intel oneAPI on MeluXina taught by Emmanuel Kieffer of LuxProvide. |
| Apr 23, 2025 | I gave a talk about our paper Exhaustive Search for Quantum Circuit Optimization using ZX Calculus at OLA 2025 in Dubai [more info] [slides]. |
| Feb 24, 2025 | 🎉 We got our paper Exhaustive Search for Quantum Circuit Optimization using ZX Calculus accepted to OLA 2025. In this work we investigate the advantages and drawbacks when exhaustive search is paired with the non-terminating rewriting system of ZX-Calculus [more info]. |
| Jan 15, 2025 | 💻 I presented my research plans for 2025 on ZX-based quantum circuit optimization [slides]. |
| Nov 14, 2024 | I switched my research topic towards quantum computing. I now investigate how to optimize quantum circuits with the help of ZX-calculus, a diagrammetic reasoning framework for quantum processes. |
| Sep 16, 2024 | 👨🏫 Started teaching Mathématiques discrètes I to first semester computer science students. Half of the course was taught in french. |
| Nov 14, 2023 | 💻 Today I presented the initial results of a reproducible energy efficiency benchmark of programming languages to the PCOG group [slides]. |
| May 05, 2023 | 💻 I had the chance to present our paper Challenges in Automatic Software Optimization: the Energy Efficiency Case at OLA 2023 in Malaga [more info]. |
| Mar 14, 2023 | 🎉 We got our paper Challenges in Automatic Software Optimization: the Energy Efficiency Case accepted to OLA 2023 [more info]. |
| Feb 22, 2023 | I officially joined the Parallel Computing and Optimisation Group (PCOG) under the supervision of Pascal Bouvry. |
| Nov 23, 2022 | 💻 I gave a talk about the energy aware optimization of software from single CPUs to HPC clusters at the community event of the Institute for Advanced Studies Luxembourg. |
| Mar 01, 2022 | 🎉 My PhD in quantum computing at the University of Luxembourg. We received the funding for my PhD from winning the Young Academics call of the Institute for Advanced Studies Luxembourg [more info] |
| Feb 18, 2022 | 🎓 I successfully defended my Master thesis on the Hydration shell of intrinsically disordered proteins in the Computational Biophysics Group of Jochen Hub at Saarland University. |
| Dec 15, 2020 | I started working as a research assistant writing a high-performance software in C++ to simulate currents in chemical reaction networks at the University of Luxembourg. |
