Curriculum Vitae (CV)

A brief summary of my studies, employment and academic tasks.

Dr. Carles Roch i Carceller

PhD date: 15 January 2024 (defense on 23 October 2023)

Quantum Information Theory

Current position

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at ICFO, Barcelona, Spain.

Personal email

chalswater@gmail.com

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Theoretical Physics

2014 - 2018

University of Barcelona, Spain.

Thesis Supervised by Dr. Antoni Planes.

Master’s degree in Quantum Physics

2018 - 2020

University of Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark.

Thesis Supervised by Dr. Anders S. Sørensen.

Doctoral studies: Quantum state discrimination with applications in contextuality and randomness certification

2020 - 2023

Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.

Thesis Supervised by Dr. Jonatan Bohr Brask.

Academic visits

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

2022 & 2025

South Korea. Group of Prof. Joonwoo Bae. Total duration of 3 + 1/2 months.

Institut de ciències fotòniques (ICFO)

2022

Barcelona, Spain. Group of Prof. Antonio Acín. Duration of 1 month.

Jyväskylä University

2024

Jyväskylä, Finland. Group of Prof. Teiko Heinosaari. Duration of 2 weeks.

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

2026

Natal, Brazil. Group of Prof. Rafael Chaves. Duration of 1 month.

Past employment

Teacher

2016 - 2017

Germans Grans, Barcelona, Spain.

Research assistant

2017 - 2018

Advanced Nanotechnologies, Barcelona, Spain.

Data entry

2019 - 2020

Omnio IoT, Copenhagen, Denmark.

PhD student

2020 - 2023

Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.

Assistant researcher

2023

Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.

Postdoctoral researcher

2023 - 2026

Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

Teaching and supervision

Teaching assistant

2021

Advanced quantum mechanics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.

Entropy bounds for semi-device-independent randomness certification

2024

Nicolò Sguerso, Master Thesis, Technical University of Denmark.

Quantum key distribution with imperfect devices

2025

Astrid Levin, Master Thesis, Lund University.

Multipartite quantum key distribution

2025

Simon Birgersson, Master Thesis, Lund University.

Certifying the inherent randomness in quantum state discrimination

2025

Oliver Karlsson, Bachelor Thesis, Lund University.