Members

Email: bill.munro (at) oist.jp
Contact: +81 (0)98-966-8629

William John MUNRO received his D. Phil degree in Physics from the University of Waikato (NZ) in 1995 and has spent the majority of his career as an industrial scientist in both Hewlett Packard and NTT Basic Research Laboratories. Joining OIST in 2023, Bill’s research focus in Quantum Science ranges from foundational issues of quantum theory through to applications of quantum technology and designs for their practical realization.

Email: naomi.sato (at) oist.jp
Contact: +81 (0)98-966-8641

Naomi worked in a Tokyo-based International NPO for 11 years and was stationed in Vietnam, the Philippines, Nepal, Cote d'Ivoire, Tanzania and Kenya as an on-site coordinator/administrator. Naomi joined OIST in 2015 as an academic-industrial coordinator of TDIC for 8 years and has been working as RUA of the Quantum Engineering and Design Unit since July 1, 2023.

Email: ivan.iakoupov (at) oist.jp

Ivan Iakoupov has a Ph.D. in quantum physics from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Ivan has worked on theoretical quantum optics, atomic physics, and circuit QED. Now, as a postdoc in OIST, Ivan is interested in applying advanced analytical and numerical techniques to find new applications for the diverse experimental platforms.

Email: heitor.peres (at) oist.jp

Heitor Casagrande received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Singapore University of Technology and Design in 2024, where he worked with quantum systems simulations and quantum complexity. Having joined OIST the same year, Heitor's interests range from renormalization group techniques with tensor networks and neural network quantum states to open quantum systems dynamics, as well as quantum chaos and complexity.

Email: hideaki.kawai (at) oist.jp

Aki acquired a Master's degree in Physics from the University of the Basque Country in Spain, where he studied adiabatic quantum computing and counterdiabatic driving. At OIST, he is expanding his interest into formal verification methods of quantum programming and aims to implement them in functional programming with dependent types. Aki is also into coffee and beer, and someday, he wants to start research on the communicational role of beverage-driven human interactions in modern society.

Email: santiago.triana (at) oist.jp

Santiago recently completed his undergraduate studies in nanotechnology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he focused on theoretical quantum computing. Now, as an intern at OIST, Santiago is collaborating on a research project about signatures of quantum chaos in closed spin chains.