Welcome to Ivan Rojkov who comes to us as a postdoctoral fellow, on a Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation, who will be working at YQI with Steven Girvin and Shruti Puri. Rojkov comes to us from ETH Zurich where he received his Ph.D. in July 2025 working with Prof. Jonathan Home in the Trapped Ion Quantum Information Group.
Rojkov commented, “My research lies at the interface of theoretical quantum optics and quantum information science, with a focus on fault-tolerant quantum information processing. I want to understand how environmental interactions shape quantum systems and to develop strategies that either harness or suppress dissipation to protect and manipulate quantum information. During my Ph.D., I focused on few-body problems related to quantum stabilization, quantum error correction, error characterization, and the implementation of quantum gates in spin and bosonic systems. My work combined general theoretical frameworks with experimentally verifiable schemes, developed in close collaboration with the Trapped Ion Quantum Information group. At Yale, I aim to extend this expertise to nonlinear quantum many-body dynamics for quantum information processing, working with Profs. Steve Girvin and Shruti Puri, and plan to continue collaborating with experimentalists, now from the Yale Quantum Institute.”