Our group works on experimental quantum photonics, from single-photon sources to programmable photonic circuits. Below are the students currently in the group and those who have completed their degrees here. If you would like to join us, please see the Opportunities page and the Contact page.
Current members
PhD students
- Maria Carolina França Volpato – Tunable integrated single-photon sources
- João Paulo Neves Azevedo Machado – Recirculating boson samplers
Master’s students
- Guilherme Severo Crispim – Encapsulation of 2D materials in photonic waveguides for observation of in-plane excitons
Undergraduate students
- Dayan Dias Oliveira – Propagation of twin photons from an SPDC source through a programmable interferometer
- Gabriela Nohama – Bachelor’s thesis on hexagonal lattice programmable interferometers
- Lucas Ramos Lucente – Characterization of recirculating boson samplers
- Isabela Cárdenas – Reconstruction of the properties of 2D materials from multiple characterization techniques
- Gabriel da Silva Sampaio – Machine learning for calibration and control of programmable interferometers
Former members
Postdoctoral researchers
- Saimon Filipe Covre da Silva (2024)
- Henrique Guimarães Rosa (2021)
Master’s degrees
- Leonard Barboza Navarro (2026) – Cryo-compatible graphene electro-optical phase modulators
- Luiz Henrique Peres Siqueira (2024) – Programmable interferometers for tests of non-locality and contextuality
- Kalebe Batista Estevam (2024) – Assembly of MoS2-WSe2 heterostructures on silicon waveguides
- Wanderson Costa Oliveira (2021) – Study of quantum clocks through analogies with clocks in a gravitational field
- Cauê Moreno Kersul de Castro Carvalho (2019) – Design, fabrication and characterization of coupled waveguide optomechanical devices for the measurement of the beating force
Undergraduate research students
- Lucas Nogueira Roberto (2022) – Real-time detection and tracking of 2D materials in optical microscopy images
- Sabrina Gadelha Magalhães (2022) – Development of a 2D-material transfer and stacking station based on 3D-printer hardware
- Matheus Belisario de Abreu (2020–2021) – Computer-vision tools for automatic identification of 2D semiconductor monolayers
- Anderson Souza Vulto (2021) – 2D materials for quantum logic gates in integrated photonics; characterization of 2D materials and a database of the results
- Vitória Ribeiro Baldim (2021) – Temperature control system for a 2D-material transfer and stacking station for heterostructure fabrication