GROUP

  • Jonathan Wang (Grad., Chemistry, 2021-) Nanoscale heat transport
  • Brett Min (Grad., Physics, 2022-) Dissipation engineering
  • Matthew Pocrnic (Grad., Physics, 2022-); joint supervison with Prof. Nathan Wiebe, CS. Quantum computing and simulations
  • Maggie Lawrence (Grad., Physics, 2022-); joint supervision with Prof. Juan Carasquilla, Vector. ML for quantum dynamics
  • Jakub Garwola (Grad., Physics, 2023-); Effective Hamiltonian method
  • Zachary Giles (Grad., Physics, 2024-); Quantum diffusion
  • Alessandro Prositto (Grad., Physics, 2024-); Repeated interaction method
  • Sofiya P'yavka (Grad., Physics, 2025-);
  • Max Sokolova (Grad., Physics, 2025-);
  • Alex Stewart-Bozzo (undergrad) Quantum dissipative dynamics at strong coupling
  • Prof. Barbara Amaral (Visiting Professor, University of Sao Paolo)


Sunny lunch outside with (not all) members
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Conferences

You can meet us at...

Group meetings & CPTG seminars

Group Meetings (2026)

Past meetings (2012) (2013) (2014)-(2015) (2017) (2018) (2019) (2020) (2021) (2022) (2023) (2024) (2025)

Former members

    Graduate Students (MSc, PhD)
  1. Matthew Gerry 2020-2025, PhD, physics
  2. Carlos Ramon Escandell 2024-2025, QUARMEN MSc, Physics → Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech and University of Barcelona, PhD, physics
  3. Nicholas Anto-Sztrikacs 2019-2024, PhD, physics → Quant CCR, Scotiabank
  4. Jakub Garwola Sep. 2023-Aug. 2024, QUARMEN Msc, physics. → PhD program, UofT Physics
  5. Margaret Lawrence Sep. 2022-Aug. 2023, Msc, physics. → PhD program, UofT Physics
  6. Timothy Sorochkin Sep. 2022-Aug. 2023, Msc, physics. → PhD program, UofT Physics
  7. Francisco Lai Liang 2020-2022, MSc Long-range Charge Transport in Linear Molecular Chains → Associate Implementation Analyst at Enable
  8. Na'im Kalantar 2020-2021, MSc Simulations of Heat Current through Molecules → Institute for Defense Analyses → PhD program, University of Rochester, Mechanical Engineering, Hydrodynamics Lab
  9. Hava Friedman 2015-2020, PhD thesis→ Physical Science Officer at Environment and Climate Change Canada
  10. Michael Kilgour 2014-2019, PhD thesis → Pdoc at McGill → PDF in Chem., NYU (with Tuckerman)
  11. Roya Moghaddasi Fereidani 2016-2018, MSc. Thesis → Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) → PDF in Chemistry at UCSD
  12. Yelena Simine 2009-2014 (CHM499 Undergrad then Direct PhD) Thesis → Postdoc in Chemistry, Rice University (with Peter Rossky) → Assistant Professor, McGill 2019.
  13. Salil Bedkihal 2010-2014 (PhD) Thesis → Postdoc in Physics, McGill University → Research Fellow, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University → Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), U of Waterloo
  14. Claire Xue Yu 2009-2013 (Direct PhD) Thesis → CITA; HPC Specialist and System Administrator

    Visiting students
  15. Roi Nevo MSc, Racah Institute of Physics, HUJI (Summer 2025)

Summer students/Undergraduate students
  1. Alex Stewart-Bozzo (undergrad, PHY378 2025) Multiple timescales due to strong coupling effects → UofT, Physics and Math
  2. Gabrielle Barsky-Giles (undergrad, NSERC-USRA 2025) spins at equilibrium and in motion → Queens University, Physics and Math
  3. Elise Wang (undergrad, NSERC-USRA 2025) Optimizing quantum networks → UTM, Physics and Math
  4. Jitian Chen (undergrad, CHM499 2024- ) Generation and protection of quantum coherences in qubits → PhD-MD program, McMaster
  5. Madeline Forbes (undergrad, NSERC USRA 2024) Repeated interaction model → Physics and Math, UBC, Undergraduate student
  6. Erin Fung (Natalia Krasnopolskaia Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships 2024) Quantum transport in lattices → Physics UofT, Undergraduate student
  7. Joanna Li (undergrad, NSERC USRA 23, ESC499 2023-2024, UTEA 24); UofT Engineering Science, Underaduate student
  8. Robert Andrade (undergrad, NSERC USRA +PHY479 2022-2023); UofT Chemistry, Undergraduate student
  9. Felix Ivander 2021-2022 (Summers 2021-2022, CHM499) → Berkeley Chemistry, Graduate Student → Harvard, Quantum Science and Engineering Graduate Student
  10. Jay Mehta (undergrad, Physics, CQIQC 2022) → McMaster Physics, UG
  11. Joy Ha 2021-2022 (CHM395) → UofT Chemistry, UG → University of California, Berkeley, Molecular Science and Software Engineering (MSc)
  12. Jonathan Wang 2018-2020 (summer 2019, CHM499 2020-2021) → UofT Chemistry, Graduate student
  13. Abisola Makindipe 2019-2020 (4th year Physics program, supervised reading), → Software Developer Sustainalytics
  14. Na'im Kalantar 2018-2020 (NSERC USRA 2018, CQIQC 2019, CHM499 2019-2020) → UofT Chemistry, Graduate student → Grad student, Univeristy of Rochester
  15. Robert Lang Summer 2018, → UofT Chemistry, Graduate student → Xanadu Quantum Technologies
  16. Anqi Mu 2017-2018, Physics Undergrad. UofT (CQIQC, PHY479) → Physics, Columbia University, Graduate student
  17. Roman Korol 2016-2018, Chemistry Undergrad. UofT → Caltech Chemistry, Graduate student → PDF Rochester → Assitant Professor, Sherbrooke University
  18. Hyehwang Kim 2016, Chemistry Undergrad. UofT → MIT Chemistry, MSc → UofT Chemistry, Graduate student
  19. Nazim Boudjada (CQIQC Summer UnderGrad. 2014, École Polytechnique de Montréal) → UofT physics, Graduate Student → Quant Strategist, Morgan Stanley
  20. Amro Dodin (Undergrad., NSERC USRA 2013, UofT) → UofT Chemistry, Graduate Student → MIT Chemistry, Graduate Student → PDF, Berkeley → Assitant Prof. Ohio State
  21. Crystal Chen (Undergrad., NSERC USRA 2013, UofT) → MIT Chemistry, Graduate Student → PDF, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  22. Kunal Tiwari, Undergrad 2011-2012
    → Graduate student in Physics (Cond. Matt.), McGill University → Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  23. Raphael Pengcheng Dong , Undergraduate 2009-2010
    → PhD student, Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary
  24. Yelena Simine (nee Nicolin) , Undergraduate 2008-2009
    → PhD student UofT → PDF, Rice University → Associate Professor, McGill 2019.


Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates
  1. Yuxuan Zhang (PDF 2025); Quantum algorimths and simulations of open quantum systems → Postdocotral fellow, Physics, EPFL 2026-
  2. Marlon Brenes (CQIQC PDF 2022-2023, PDF 2024) Quantum many-body dynamics → Professor, School of Physics, University of Costa Rica; 2025-
  3. Finn Lasse Buessen (MITACS PDF, Physics, 2022) Quantum simulations → IonQ Canada
  4. Ilia Khait (CQIQC pdoc) 2020-2022 → CTO Entangled Networks → IonQ Canada
  5. Junjie Liu (pdoc) 2019-2021 web → Professor, Shanghai University
  6. Abhay Shastry (pdoc) 2018-2019 → Pdoc in Machine learning, Computer Science department, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. web
  7. Bijay Kumar Agarwalla (CQIQC pdoc) 2015-2017 → Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IISER Pune web
  8. Ed Taylor 2014-2015 (RA) web → Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (Toronto) → Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto
  9. Manas Kulkarni, Postdoctoral Fellow 2012
    10. → Postdoc in EE, Princeton → Assistant Prof. New York City College of Technology (CityTech CUNY) → Faculty member at ICTS Bangalore
  10. Savannah S. Garmon CQIQC Postdoctoral Fellow 10-2012
    → JSPS postdoctoral fellow, University of Tokyo → Assistant Prof. Osaka Prefecture University
  11. Malay Bandyopadhyay, Postdoctoral Fellow 2010-2012
    → Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
  12. Yun Zhou, Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-2010
    → Postdoctoral Fellow Beijing Computational Science Research Center → Postdoctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science→ Professor Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational Nano-material Science
  13. Lianao Wu, Researcher 2008-2009
    → Ikerbasque Professor

    14. Visiting Professors
  14. Prof. Barbara Amaral, Universidade de Sao Paulo (2025-2026)
  15. Prof. Roi Baer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2023-2024)
  16. Lianao Wu, Ikerbasque Professor
  17. Prof. Gaba Hanna, University of Alberta (summer-fall 2017) web
  18. Prof. Manas Kulkarni, ICTS (Most renently Nov. 2017)
  19. Prof. Bijay K. Agarwalla, IISER Pune (May-June 2018) web

Events:

Chemistry
Physics, Bio Fields, Applied Physics and Engineering
ECE
Scinet
APS IOP

Ongoing:

Research at UofT, Open Utoronto

Funding for students