EDUCATION
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA                                 2020 – 2025

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics                                                                Aug 2020 – Aug 2025

Dissertation: “An Algebraic Approach to Quantum Scrambling and Measures of

Dynamical Complexity in Quantum Systems” Advisor: Prof. P. Zanardi

Master of Arts in Physics                                                                            Aug 2020 – May 2025

Graduate GPA: 3.95/4

University of Athens, Athens, Greece                                                                 2015 – 2020

Bachelor of Science in Physics                                                      September 2015 – June 2020

Specialization: Nuclear and Particle Physics

GPA: 9.57/10

Thesis: “Topics in the holographic approach of gauge theories”

Senior Thesis Advisor: Prof. K. Sfetsos
EXPERIENCE
Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany                              2025 – present

Postdoctoral Researcher                                                                                   Fall 2025 – present

–  Research: Quantum state preparation (Group of Quatnum Algorithms and Applications, Prof. B. Kraus)

–  Teaching:   Designed and taught a ProSeminar on “Schur-Weyl Duality and Applications in Quantum Information Theory”

Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany 2025 – present

Postdoctoral Researcher                                                                                   Fall 2025 – present

–  Research:   Algorithms for Gibbs state sampling (Theory Group, Prof. I. Cirac)

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA                                 2020 – 2025

USC PhD Fellow                                 Fall 2020 – Summer 2021 & Fall 2024 – Summer 2025

Research Assistant                                                                                 Fall 2023 – Summer 2024

Teaching Assistant                                                                                 Fall 2021 – Summer 2023
–  Research:   Projects under the supervision of Prof. P. Zanardi:

•    The generation of nonlocal nonstabilizerness under unitary maps.

•    Transitions in the informational stability of quantum system partitions.

•    The effect of noise in encoding-decoding random quantum circuits.

•    Operator delocalization and the geometry of multipartite tensor product structures in closed quantum systems.

•    The generation of operator entanglement by unitary channels with applications to the dynamical behavior of dual-unitary circuits.

•    The scrambling behavior of Hamiltonian dynamics across different quantum system partitions.

•    An algebraic approach to quantum scrambling and its application to the dynamical behavior of generalized subsystem structures.

•    The role of symmetry algebras and Hilbert space fragmentation in the coherence generating power of closed quantum systems.

Projects under the supervision of Prof. D. Lidar:

•    The applicability regime of efficacy bounds for quantum errorcorrecting codes.

–  Teaching: Teaching Assistant for graduate level Quantum Mechanics I, II, and lab instructor and exam grader for undergraduate courses in Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism.

CONFERENCES

& WORKSHOPS
Quantum Information Processing Conference poster presentation, Riga, 2026 Latvia

Quantum Information Conference, Benasque, Spain                                                         2025

American Physical Society March Meeting poster presentation, Minneapolis, 2024 USA
FELLOWSHIPS

&

AWARDS
Philomela Myronis Endowed Fellowship, USC                                                          2024-2025
Center of Applied Mathematics Prize for Excellence in Research with a substantial Mathematical Component, USC
2024
 
Gerondelis Foundation Grant
2023
 
Fellow of Onassis Foundation, 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
2019
GRADES &

DISTINCTIONS
Top grade (90.1/100) in the graduate screening exam of my class at the University of Southern California
2021
 
Valedictorian (GPA: 9.57/10) of the Physics Department, University of Athens
2020
 
#1 grade nationwide (19.85/20) in university-entry exams in Greece
2015
COMPUTER

SKILLS
Numerical simulations of quantum systems using CPU and GPU computing.

Languages & Software: python, Mathematica, julia, C, Matlab