Erickson Tjoa

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, working in the Theory group headed by Ignacio Cirac. Currently I hold a Humboldt Research Fellowship (2024-2026) from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation. 

I did my PhD (Sep 2017-May 2023) in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo, also affiliated with Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC). My work was mostly about using techniques from quantum information theory to fundamental physics in the context of quantum field theory in curved spacetimes. My PhD (and MSc.) advisors were Robert B. Mann and Eduardo Martín-Martínez. I was also a member of Barrio-RQI, a local research group led by Eduardo Martín-Martínez that specializes in the so-called relativistic quantum information (RQI).

I did my Bachelor's degree in Physics with second major in Mathematical Sciences at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from 2013-2017, supported generously by the NTU CN Yang Programme. I also had a great fortune to be part of the then-newly designed interdisciplinary program called NTU-USP. During and before my undergraduate studies, I spent some time doing volunteering work in Singapore, such as providing free mathematics and English tuition for hard-of-hearing middle school students, free alumni tuition for my alma mater in Changkat Changi Secondary School, Singapore for GCE 'O' level Additional Mathematics.