My name is Dr. Zahra Raissi, I am a junior group leader at Paderborn University, Germany. After undergraduate and graduate studies at the Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, as well as visiting Germany, Japan, and Poland, I wrote my doctoral thesis on different topics like Many-Body entanglement, Quantum error correction, and Quantum Networks under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Acin and Prof. Vahid Karimipour. Afterward, I did two postdocs at ICFO, Barcelona, Spain, Center for Quantum Information Science & Engineering, and Virginia Tech, USA.

Our research spans a number of topics in quantum theory, including Many-Body Entanglement, Classical and Quantum Error Correcting Codes, Quantum Networks, Quantum Algorithms, and focuses on bridging abstract theory and experimental reality.

In more details:

* ) Many-body entanglement; is a resource that would theoretically allow quantum technologies to outperform their classical counterparts. That is, having access to an entangled state enables quantum information-processing tasks, such as teleportation, quantum error correction, measurement-based quantum computation, and entanglement-based quantum communication. Despite its importance, we are still far from a complete understanding of entanglement in the multipartite case.

*) Quantum error correction; is another main challenge in the field of quantum information and computation and one area where the multipartite entangled states find applications. Investigation of the connection between quantum codes and existing classical error correcting codes led us to understand the structure of quantum codes and their connection to the highly entangled subspaces.

* ) Quantum Networks; are among the most challenging and fundamental problems in science as we need them to have communication. The problem is especially important in the quantum case as we need to use entanglement wisely in order to communicate more efficiently than in classical networks.

* ) Quantum Algorithms; run on a realistic model of a quantum system to find the best quantum circuit to construct a given quantum state with fewer gates as well as study the dynamic of a many-body system based on its Hamiltonian. Although both quantum and classical algorithms are step by step procedures, the term quantum algorithm is usually used for those algorithms which seem inherently quantum, or use some essential feature of quantum computation such as quantum superposition or quantum entanglement as a resource.

For all inquiries concerning research positions and internships, please contact me:

zraissi[at]mail.uni-paderborn[dot]de

z.raissi2[at]gmail[dot]com