De les Coves, Gemma
Humanities
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Department Departament d'Enginyeria
Address Edifici Roc Boronat 138 - Campus Pobrenou
Postal code 08018
City Barcelona
Keywords
Universality
Grammar
Spin models
Turing machines
Undecidability
Short biography
After studying Physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in 2007 I moved to the heart of beautiful Tyrol for my PhD to work on quantum information under the supervision of Prof. Hans Briegel. In 2011 I moved to the European plain, in Munich, to work with Prof. Ignacio Cirac on mathematical physics, more precisely the description of quantum many body systems with tensor networks. I feel that I learned a lot of math those years. I also worked on universal spin systems. In 2016 I moved back to Innsbruck (unexpectedly) and started building my own group, which consolidated in 2020 with the START Prize. I worked with (generally very fit!) people from all over Europe on mathematical quantum physics, as well as universality and unreachability in physics, math and computer science. In recent years I have been reading philosophy and linguistics books to approach questions that are very close to my heart. In 2024 I returned to Catalonia with an ICREA Professorship.