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patrick DOT andriolo AT tuwien DOT ac DOT at

Patrick Andriolo

English: I'm a PhD student working with Gláucia Murta and Elizabeth Agudelo, interested in bringing Quantum Key Distribution closer to practical implementations through the development of numerical security proofs for realistic quantum communication protocols, in a collaboration with qtlabs. I'm also curious about diverse topics of quantum foundations — such as Bell nonlocality, quantum contextuality, generalized probabilistic theories, nonstabilizerness, and indefinite causality — with a particular interest on approaching these subjects using semidefinite programming methods.

Previously I completed my master's degree under the supervision of Bárbara Amaral at the University of São Paulo (Brazil). My dissertation was related to the interface between quantum foundations and gravitation, where I explored quantum contextuality as a possible signature of gravity's non-classicality. During my master's, I was a visiting scholar at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), working in the group of Anupam Mazumdar, with focus in the theory behind tests that aim to use entanglement to probe gravity's quantum nature. During my master's I also visited the group of Rafael Chaves at the International Institute of Physics (Natal, Brazil), researching indefinite causality. Before that, as an undergraduate student, I developed a project supervised by Marcelo Terra Cunha (University of Campinas, Brazil), where I explored quantum correlations from the perspective of graph theory.

Feel free to contact me in English, Portuguese or German if you're interested in any of the subjects above 🙂