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I am currently a quantum computation engineer at the Information Sciences Institute of USC. Seriously. I am also a Harvard Associate of the Aspuru-Guzik's research group at Harvard University.

My research, in general, is related to quantum computation and quantum information. Topics I work on are:

• Machine learning for feature selection in: validation of control systems; and selection of molecules for organic photovoltaics (Harvard Clean Energy Project).
• The potential of quantum computation for computational chemistry.
• Experimental proofs of concept for quantum computation algorithms.
• Adiabatic quantum computation.
• Applications of category theory to quantum theory.
• Quantum metrology
• Quantum foundations

I am also interested in the "energy problem": we can not go on using fossil fuels with the current largesse for much longer. For instance, I am working on estimating how much energy, money, and CO₂ could be saved by painting most roofs of the South of Spain white (cool roof). Our paper in this topic has just been accepted in the journal Energy

I was born in Leon, a small city in Spain, but I have lived in many places.

I have undergraduate degrees in computer engineering, philosophy, and mathematics. I did a Master of Physics at UAB and my Ph.D. in Physics at UNM, while also doing research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. I was a postdoc at the Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) at Caltech. IQI is located in the Center for Information Science and Technology, which brings together physics and information science. I am a Harvard Associate at the Department of Chemistry (at Harvard).

In a past life I worked in software at the European Central Bank, I consulted for several other banks, and I was system architect at an Artificial Intelligence company.