About me
Education
High School:
Instituto Ballester Deutsche Schule
In Buenos Aires, I went to the German school “Instituto Ballester Deutsche Schule” where I graduated in 2014 with an international baccalaureate’s (IB) degree as regulated by the International Baccalaureate Organization. My IB was focused on natural sciences and languages, having lectures in Spanish, German and English.
Bachelor’s degree:
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
After graduation, I moved to Würzburg, Germany to pursue a degree in phyiscs at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in 2018 under the supervision of Privatdozent Dr. René Meyer with my thesis titled “AC Conductivities of Effective Holographic Theories”. This work provided me with a first glimpse into the AdS/CFT correspondence, also known as holography, which would then end up permeating my further studies. I analyzed the behavior of electric conductivities of certain strongly coupled condensed matter systems via the holographic dictionary provided by the AdS/CFT correspondence. The latter allows to map the derivation of the conductivities to a simpler computation involving classical equations of motion of fields defined on top of the geometry of a rotating black hole.
Master’s degree:
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
My Master’s thesis, supervised once more by Dr. Meyer and finished in 2020, allowed me to delve into new topics within the framework of AdS/CFT, in particular the quantity known as quantum circuit complexity, a measure borrowed by high-energy physisicts from quantum computer science. The thesis, titled “Nielsen Complexity in the large N limit and the Euler-Arnold Equation”, investigated a certain definition of quantum circuit complexity in view of providing a unifying setup which interpolates between finite and infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. The findings of the thesis, which later turned into a publication, presented a beautiful connection between quantum complexity and the motion of ideal fluids as described by the classical theory of hydrodynamics.
PhD:
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
During my PhD, which I finished on October 2024 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Johanna Erdmenger, I have once again broadened my horizon of topics within the scope of the AdS/CFT correspondence, as well as improving my skills and knowledge in the areas I had previously worked on. The guiding objective of my PhD research is the development and analysis of holographic models defined on discrete setups. More precisely, we consider particular discretizations of negatively curved space known as regular hyperbolic tilings. Based on theories of gravity defined on these discrete spaces, we contruct dual models like spin chains which incorporate specific features of the tilings. We then analyze several properties of the ground states of these models, such as symmetries, entanglement entropy and mutual information and compare them to their expected behavior from continuous AdS/CFT.
Hyperbolic tilings also provide access to the experimental realization of negatively curved spaces in the laboratory via the platform known as hyperbolic electric circuits. Explorations of the equations of motion of fields on such discrete geometries, together with powerful numerical simulations, allowed us to succesfully check an celebrated stability bound predicted by AdS/CFT on such hyperbolic circuit architectures. This was one of the pioneering works providing explicit checks that predictions from AdS/CFT can actually be measured in the laboratory.
In parallel, my research allowed me to pursue my interests in quantum information theory. More specifically, we investigated the connection between the factorization of Hilbert spaces in the context of AdS/CFT and the quantum information-theoretic quantity of quantum discord. In our work, we considered a related quantity called geometric quantum discord and provided a protocol for diagnosing the factorization of partition functions based on the non-vanishing of quantum discord. This work also allowed me to gain in-depth knowledge into many other correlation measures in quantum information theory, such as the Holevo quantity, conditional entropies, and entanglement negativity.
Physics for Everyone
Since 2020 I have been part of a public outreach project called “Physik für Alle” (German for “physics for everyone”) which was started by a fellow PhD student of mine in Würzburg. We offer 30-minute talks where we explain complicated physics phenomena in layman’s terms for a general audience, without resorting to equations.
Topics range from string theory, black holes, and the information paradox to telecommunications, quantum computing,, and singing glasses. The events are for everyone that might be interested in learning something about the world without having to feel scared about maths. There is free entry to every event since the project is done voluntarily, and the audience always has the chance to ask questions, thus providing a relaxed atmosphere.
On March 2022, on International Women’s Day, we started a new branch of the project by the name of “Frauen in der Physik” (German for “Women in physics”) which focuses on highlighting female scientists and their work. Our presentations are conceived to emphasize the biography and career path of female scientists, as well as provide down-to-earth explanations of the physics behind their research. Our first installment was devoted to Emmy Noether, Vera Rubin, and Andrea Ghez, a selection that accentuates how gender inequality in physics is a long-standing problem up to this day. Our goal is to bring attention to the imbalance of treatment and opportunities faced by female scientists and to help shed light, at least on a local level, on the challenges women encounter in pursuing careers in physics and other STEM fields.
QUANTube
The University of Würzburg, together with the Technical University of Dresden, belong to the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, which developed a friendly mobile App called “Kitty Q“ to help everyone learn quantum physics in a fun and pedagogical way. The escape-room-style game features several riddles related to quantum phenomena, while having Schödinger’s cat as a loyal companion. Users that manage to win the game have the possibility to submit questions about quantum physics, which are then answered in the series of videos called “QUANTube” on the YouTube channel of ct.qmat. I volunteered to be the host of episode #6 of this series, where we answer questions regarding quantum entanglement and quantum cryptography.