Rafael Chaves

IIP research group leader and assistant professor ECT-UFRN

Areas of research: quantum information and foundations of quantum mechanics

Quantum information and computation, open systems and decoherence, entanglement theory, nonlocality and foundational aspects of quantum mechanics, quantum metrology, quantum optics, machine learning, Bayesian networks and causal models.

  • 2000-2004: B.Sc., Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  • 2004-2006: M.Sc., Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fí­sicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • 2006-2010: Ph.D., Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • 2010-2012: Postdoc, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain

  • 2012-2015: Postdoc, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

  • 2015-2016: Postdoc, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  • Since 2016: Professor, IIP-UFRN, Natal, Brazil

rafael.chaves@ufrn.br