I’m a quantum algorithm developer at Pasqal in Paris, in the Primitives team. My job is to turn physics ideas into software that runs on neutral-atom quantum processors, and most of that work goes into QoolQit.
I came to this from the simulation side. My PhD at SISSA (Trieste, 2020 to 2024) was on many-body simulations: tensor networks for non-equilibrium dynamics, measurement-induced transitions, hybrid tensor-network/stabilizer methods, plus a few experiments using early IBM devices as testbeds for thermodynamic and foundational tests. Afterwards I spent a year and a half as a postdoc at CPHT, École Polytechnique, and at the Collège de France, working on neural-network quantum states: how expressive they are, how to optimise them cheaply, and how to train one model over a whole family of Hamiltonians.
I was born in Prato, in Tuscany, Italy, and studied physics in Florence. I also teach a short course on neutral-atom computing at EPITA.
Timeline
- 2026 to present: Quantum Algorithm Developer, Pasqal, Paris
- 2024 to 2026: Postdoc, CPHT, École Polytechnique and Collège de France, Paris (Hi! PARIS fellowship)
- 2020 to 2024: PhD in condensed matter physics, SISSA, Trieste.
- 2014 to 2020: BSc and MSc in Physics, Università di Firenze
Contact
Work email: alessandro.santini (at) pasqal.com. GitHub and LinkedIn are in the icons on the home page.