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One of QSI's SQA PhD students, Mauro Morales. Image: @SydneyQuantumAcademy.
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Mauricio (Mauro) Morales Soler grew up in Santiago, Chile, and found science offered a rigorous and systematic response to his quest to make sense of the world.
“I read books on Plato and philosophy as a child and was very curious about how the world works, then in high school became fascinated by science, first with biology and genetics, and then once I studied physics, I wanted to become a physicist.”
“The chance to do something that has practical consequences in the world, really appealed to me,” he says.
It’s a passion that has led to Sydney where Mauro is close to completing a PhD project exploring two key topics - quantum complexity theory, which uses rigorous mathematics to classify how difficult it will be to solve a particular problem; and quantum algorithms, which involves designing an algorithm to solve a problem as efficiently as possible.
This dual focus involves two supervisors, with his work on complexity led by Professor Michael Bremner here at UTS’s QSI, and his algorithm development being supervised by Associate Professor Dominic Berry at Macquarie University.
Read the full story on the Sydney Quantum Academy blog.
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