20 May 2026

Max Planck Mobility Grant Award

Heitor Peres Casagrande, a postdoctoral researcher in the Quantum Engineering and Design Uint, has been awarded a Max Planck Asian Mobility Grant.

Heitor Peres Casagrande, a postdoctoral researcher in the Quantum Engineering and Design Uint, has been awarded a Max Planck Asian Mobility Grant. The grant supports a collaboration with Professor Mari-Carmen Bañuls' group at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, advancing research at the intersection of Quantics Tensor Networks and Quantum Many-Body Physics.

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