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I graduated in physics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, where I also did my master's degree. I then did a PhD at the University of Vienna in Austria, where I researched the foundations of quantum mechanics. I then went to the University of Cologne in Germany for a postdoc, and obtained an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship, with which I returned to Vienna for a postdoc.

I came to the University of Valladolid in 2023, hired by the Q-CAYLE project, where I am now a Ramón y Cajal researcher.

I study quantum cryptography, optimisation theory, and Bell inequalities. Quantum cryptography allows two distant parties to communicate securely, with security guaranteed by the laws of physics. This contrasts with the security possible in classical cryptography, which is based on the difficulty of solving computational problems and is threatened by quantum computers. To deploy quantum cryptography in a practical way, however, it is still necessary to solve difficult optimisation problems, and for that we use the latest advances in its theory. Bell's inequalities, in turn, are an originally philosophical topic from the foundations of quantum mechanics, which investigated the possibility of local hidden variable theories. His research led to the development of many fields of quantum information, such as entanglement, quantum computing, quantum cryptography itself, and continues to bear fruit.

My vision is to work at the interface between these three fields, seeking new possibilities in the foundations of quantum mechanics and new techniques in optimisation theory, applying them to new quantum information protocols.