Rafael Wagner
Welcome! I will report here some of my ongoing work, presentations, notes, and maybe other content (check out my publications here or here!!). Research is a collaborative effort, a social engagement that actively transforms ourselves and our society. The moving force for writing and teaching science is best described by Paulo Freire:
"Não há ensino sem pesquisa e pesquisa sem ensino [...] Enquanto ensino continuo buscando, reprocurando. Ensino porque busco, porque indaguei, porque indago e me indago. Pesquiso para constatar, constatando, intervenho, intervindo educo e me educo. Pesquiso para conhecer o que ainda não conheço e comunicar ou anunciar a novidade. " (Paulo Freire, Pedagogia da Autonomia, 1997)
"There can be no research without teaching [...] As I keep teaching I am always searching, re-thinking. I teach because I search. After all, I have questioned myself and questioned others. I research to verify; in verifying I intervene, and while intervening I teach others and myself. I research to discover what I did not know, and to communicate or announce, the novelty."
Neste local pretendo reportar e discutir meus trabalhos recentes, minha participação em congressos, discutir resultados recentes da literatura (na forma de Journal Club), entre outros. A maior parte do que for produzido por aqui será em inglês.
QLOC
I am currently a PhD candidate finishing my second year in the doctoral program called MAP-fis between the Universities of Aveiro, Minho, and Porto together with the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (the place I go every day!) My research group is called Quantum and Linear-Optical Computation (QLOC). @QLOC_INL, and my supervisors are Ernesto Galvão, Rui Soares Barbosa, and Mikhail Vasilevskiy. My main research attempts at studying non-classical aspects of quantum theory in order to prove formal quantum advantage results in computation and information processing. Check out here our latest academic production!
ME
I am at the very beginning of my academic journey. Have a lot to learn and I am extremely enthusiastic about scientific research in all ways: collaborating, discussing, reviewing, writing, presenting, and learning!
I dream of following the academic path, to become a good post-doc, teacher, and researcher. Mostly because I see the profound social responsibility of what it means to be a scientist, and also because I honestly think it is among the best things anyone can do.
Teaching
It is possible to find some of my early notes (here -> aqui), from when I was an undergrad student. I also hope to put here some of my most recent notes about research topics of my current interest.
If I ever become the TA of a class, here is where I'll put my notes as well.
Quantum Foundations - ifusp
Between 2020-2021 I was a Master's student in the group of quantum foundations from the Univerity of São Paulo led by Barbara Amaral.