Stefano Polla's homepage

Assistant Professor @ University of Amsterdam (UvA)

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Science Park 904

C2.221

Amsterdam

I am researching Quantum Algorithms for the simulation of molecular systems in UvA.

Member of the Computational Chemistry group in the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), UvA.

Member of the Computational Science Lab in IvI (Instituut van Informatica), UvA.

Member of QuSoft.

Principal Investigator in the Applied Quantum Algorithms Leiden group.

Leading member of the Quantum computing for Qantum Chemistry (QC$^2$) collaboration (including QuSoft Amsterdam, aQa Leiden, VU Amsterdam).

Coordinator of a consortium researching Quantum Software for Drug Design (QSDD) in the context of QDNL Forward Challenge for Life Science and Health.


Work in progress…

Thesis Cover

This is the cover of my PhD thesis: an artistic representation of quantum computing emerging as a new technology, inspired by the rising cities painted by the futurist movement. — by Jeanne M. Viet Miss J Art

selected publications

  1. JCTC
    FragPT2: Multifragment Wave Function Embedding with Perturbative Interactions
    Emiel Koridon, Souloke Sen, Lucas Visscher, and Stefano Polla
    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Jan 2025
  2. Quantum
    A Hybrid Quantum Algorithm to Detect Conical Intersections
    Emiel Koridon, Joana Fraxanet, Alexandre Dauphin, Lucas Visscher, Thomas E. O’Brien, and Stefano Polla
    Quantum, Feb 2024
  3. MLST
    Learning Density Functionals from Noisy Quantum Data
    Emiel Koridon, Felix Frohnert, Eric Prehn, Evert van Nieuwenburg, Jordi Tura, and Stefano Polla
    Machine Learning: Science and Technology, Apr 2025
  4. PRX Quantum
    Error Mitigation via Verified Phase Estimation
    Thomas E. O’Brien, Stefano Polla, Nicholas C. Rubin, William J Huggins, Sam McArdle, Sergio Boixo, and 2 more authors
    PRX Quantum, Oct 2021
  5. Quantum
    Virtual Mitigation of Coherent Non-Adiabatic Transitions by Echo Verification
    Benjamin F. Schiffer, Dyon Vreumingen, Jordi Tura, and Stefano Polla
    Quantum, May 2024