About

This website showcases my various interests and projects. I often enjoy explaining things in simple terms, which led me to experiment with JavaScript and p5.js, primarily for physics animations. I created this site as a space to share my thoughts and animated explanations on physics, hobbies, and more. It also serves as my personal portfolio.

Please note, the blog content may contain errors—if you spot any, feel free to reach out.

I am a Rubicon postdoctoral fellow in the TIQI group at ETH Zürich.

My research focuses on trapped ions for quantum computing. Check out some of my publications!

Outside of work, I enjoy gymming, bouldering, climbing, hiking, and biking. I’m also passionate about technology and physics, and have a fascination with boats—I even owned three in Amsterdam, one of which proudly stayed afloat until I left the country. In my free time, I enjoy reading, coding, and tinkering with electronics. You can find all my coding and electronics projects here.

Did I say I work on ions? You wanna learn more about ions? Have a look here.

Postdoc (2024-current)

I am part of the Penning trap project which aims to investigate scalable quantum simulation and computation based on two-dimensional arrays of ions trapped in a cryogenic micro-fabricated planar Penning trap.

Postdoc (2023-2024)

During my postdoctoral research at the University of Amsterdam I investigated the usage of beyond-paraxial approximation effects for realizing novel quantum logic gates in trapped ions, a method that we patented in 2023. More on this can be found here.

PhD in Physics (2018-2023)

I obtained my PhD in 2023 at the University of Amsterdam in the group of René Gerritsma, working on trapped ions for quantum computing and quantum simulations with the Hyqs group. My doctoral research focused on developing a novel experimental setup for quantum simulations utilizing trapped ions and optical tweezers. I also worked on theoretical proposals to engineer new types of two-qubit quantum logic gates using optical tweezers and beyond-paraxial approximation effects.

Master in Physics (2016-2018)

Previously, I researched non-linear electrodynamic effects in the PVLAS experiment at the University of Ferrara, where I earned my Master's degree in Physics. During my Master's studies at the University of Paris-Saclay, I worked in the LHCb collaboration at the Laboratoire de l'accelérateur linéaire.

In summer 2017, I interned with the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab, tuning simulation parameters of neutrino cross sections from Monte Carlo simulations using NUISANCE and Bayesian statistics.

Bachelor in Physics (2013-2016)

During my Bachelor's studies in Ferrara, I worked within the LHCb collaboration to measure the quantum efficiency of new photomultiplier tubes for the LHCb high-luminosity upgrade.

Bachelor in Computer Science (2009-2013)

Before my physics career, I pursued a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, developing a RESTful API for PostgreSQL databases.