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Giannicola Scarpa

Giannicola Scarpa


I am interested in quantum information and computation. Particularly, I work on the theory of entanglement and its applications in complexity, graph theory, information theory and foundations of physics.

I graduated from the University of Salerno in Computer Science (cum laude) in 2009, with a thesis on quantum game theory supervised by Giuseppe Persiano.

From 2009 to 2013 I was PhD student at CWI, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. My advisor was Ronald de Wolf.  I got my PhD from University of Amsterdam on the 27th of November 2013, defending a PhD thesis entitled "Quantum entanglement in non-local games, graph parameters and zero-error information theory".

From January 2014 to January 2016 I was post-doc in Andreas Winter's group at UAB in Barcelona, Spain, and from February 2016 to April 2019 I was post-doc with David Pérez-García at UCM in Madrid, Spain. Since May 2019 I am professor of computer science at UPM in Madrid, Spain.

I am a gender equality and equal opportunity advocate, and I support associations such as WOMAT.


Giannicola Scarpa