Associate Professor

Areas of Research/Interest

  • Developing new numerical methods for simulating many-body quantum systems.
  • Exploring quantum optimal control theory and counter-diabatic driving.
  • Dynamical phenomena in complex quantum systems
  • Developing quantum algorithms 

FELLOWSHIPS/HONORS

Sloan Research fellow (NYU)

FWO Senior postdoctoral fellow (Harvard)

FWO Junior postdoctoral fellow (BU)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Efficient tensor network simulation of IBM’s eagle kicked Ising experiment

J Tindall, M Fishman, EM Stoudenmire, D Sels, PRX Quantum 5 (1), 010308 (2024)

Bath-induced delocalization in interacting disordered spin chains

D Sels, Physical Review B 106 (2), L020202 (2022)

Adiabatic eigenstate deformations as a sensitive probe for quantum chaos

M Pandey, PW Claeys, DK Campbell, A Polkovnikov, D Sels, Physical Review X 10 (4), 041017 (2020)