Gloria Platero

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Gloria Platero Coello is a Spanish physicist whose research involves the computational simulation of quantum dots and other quantum behavior on nanostructures. She works for the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) as a research professor at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM). [1]

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Education and career

Platero has a PhD from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1984, supervised by Federico García Moliner  [ es ]. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for High Magnetic Fields (now the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses) in Grenoble, France, and as an honorary professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, before taking a permanent position at the CSIC in 1987. [2]

Recognition

Platero was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2022, after a nomination from the APS Division of Quantum Information, "for key theoretical physics contributions to the development of novel quantum circuit functionalities and protocols required to implement quantum information applications in real systems". [3]

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References

  1. "Platero Coello, Gloria", People, Materials Science Institute of Madrid, retrieved 2023-07-01
  2. "Gloria Platero", Current members, Materials Science Institute of Madrid, retrieved 2023-07-01
  3. "Fellows nominated in 2022 by the Division of Quantum Information", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2023-07-01