Fernando Brandao

Fernando Brandão
Born	1983 Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Residence	United States
Fields	physics, computer science, mathematics
Institutions	California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Martin Bodo Plenio

Fernando Brandão (born 22 January 1983, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) is a Brazilian physicist and computer scientist working on quantum information and quantum computation. He is currently the Bren Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. Before he was a Researcher at Microsoft and a Reader in Computer Science at University College London.

Some of Brandão's main contributions involve the development of the theory of quantum entanglement. Together with Martin Bodo Plenio he developed a reversible framework for quantum entanglement inspired by thermodynamics. Together with Matthias Christandl and Jon Yard he showed that the problem of deciding whether a quantum state is entangled can be solved in quasi-polynomial time. Together with Michal Horodecki he proved an area law for entanglement in every one-dimensional quantum state with a finite correlation length.

He is an editor of the journal Physics Reports. He was awarded the 2013 European Quantum Information Young Investigator Award for "his highly appraised achievements in entanglement theory, quantum complexity theory, and quantum many-body physics, which combine dazzling mathematical ability and impressive physical insight"

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