Luis completed his PhD in Physics in 2014 at Universidad de La Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain). Later that year, he joined the Quantum Information Group at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) as a postdoctoral research assistant. In 2016, he started working as a research fellow at the University of Nottingham, in the Quantum Correlations Group. In 2019–2022, he was a lecturer in physics at the University of Exeter, where the Open Quantum Systems Group was born. He is now a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the University of La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain).

Luis' research interests include open systems, the thermodynamics of nanoscale heat devices, and noisy quantum metrology—in particular, high precision thermometry in the quantum regime.

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Olga is a MSCA Fellow since 2023 at the Universidad de La Laguna. She studied Mechanical Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona and did a PhD with Tryphon Georgiou at the University of California in Irvine, where she was also a Postdoctoral Researcher. In 2025 Olga received the Prigogine Price for her outstanding PhD thesis. 

She has worked at the intersection between control theory and stochastic thermodynamics. In particular, she has studied how Optimal Mass Transport techniques can be applied to thermodynamic systems subject to anisotropic temperature fields.

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Edward studied physics at Oxford and joined the group in 2022 through an EPSRC PhD scholarship while we were still based at the University of Exeter.  Since then he has been working on quantum thermometry, quantum information theory and open quantum systems.

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Himar joined the group in 2024 as an FPI PhD student under Spanish MICINN Project PID2022-138269NBI00. He studied Physics at ULL and did a MSc on theoretical physics at the University of Valencia. He has worked on bosonic string theory and applications of machine learning to high-energy physics. Himar now works on open quantum systems and the modelling of magnetic imaging techniques.

Jonas did his PhD with us and defended his thesis "Quantum Thermodynamics Close to the Absolute Zero" in July 2024. He is currently a research associate in Andrew Armour's group at the Univerisity of Nottingham. Jonas joined our group back in 2020. Before that, he had written his master’s thesis at ETH Zurich on the relation of symmetries and conserved quantities for open quantum systems, in the setting of Lindblad dynamics and quantum stochastic evolutions. He also worked as a mathematician in social insurance. Jonas is interested in the interconnection of different physical theories and in collective and emergent phenomena such as irreversibility and decoherence.

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Stefano is a PhD student in the group of Prof. Janet Anders since 2019, and also, a regular at the Open Quantum Systems Group. Stefano works on a range of problems within open quantum systems: from modelling of weakly dissipative open systems with quantum master equations, to exact methods for strongly coupled open systems.

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Charlie is currently a PhD student in the group of Prof. Janet Anders at the University of Exeter and a collaborator at out group. She did her master project with us, on heat transport accross multipartite open systems.

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Alex joined us as a 4th-year MPhys student at the University of Exeter in 2020. His master thesis was on master equations to model heat transport accross open quantum systems.

Oshin joined during the second year of her Physics degree at the University of Exeter, in the summer of 2022. She worked with us on a (still ongoing) project on quantum heat engines. We'll get her a profile picture soon!

Stefan is currently a PhD student at Freie Universität Berlin. He joined us while at his 2nd-year of MSci Theoretical Physics student at Imperial College London. At the Open Quantum Systems Group, he worked on the thermodynamic analysis of a versatile quantum heat device. While he is particularly interested in quantum thermodynamics and quantum information, he is also attracted to other areas in mathematical and theoretical physics.

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Joshua joined the group in 2020 as an EPSRC Summer intern during his  3rd-year of MPhys at the University of Exeter. He worked on heat transport in open quantum systems and theory of magnetic confinement of electrons in graphene