Merlin Incerti-Medici

I'm a Researcher at Moth Quantum in Basel, Switzerland. My focus is on Quantum Error Correction and fault tolerance. Before, I spent nearly a decade doing research in several universities and research institutions, including Universität Zürich and IHES. During that time, my research was on various aspects of geometric group theory.

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My work in quantum computing centers around Quantum Error Correction and building new quantum algorithms. Most notably, I look into the challenges that arise when trying to run a concrete error correction code, typically a qLDPC code, on a particular class of hardware. In quantum algorithms, I try to find ways to utilize the known tricks of Shor and Grover for new applications.

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Some central themes of my academic work were the geometry of negatively curved manifolds, CAT(0) cube complexes, and asymptotic geometry. I was particularly interested in understanding non-symmetric negatively curved manifolds - for example Gromov-Thurston manifolds - up to quasi-isometry (of their fundamental groups) and the geometry of CAT(0) cube complexes, as cube complexes naturally arise when studying negatively curved manifolds. In addition, I was working on various ways how boundaries (and their cross ratios) can determine the geometry of their interior space.

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I have a blog which you can find here.