Krissia Zawadzki

Krissia Zawadzki is a Brazilian computational physicist. She got her PhD degree at the São Carlos Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo, under the supervision of Prof. Luiz Nunes de Oliveira. Her thesis explored density functional approximations to describe transport in correlated nanostructures. After graduating in 2018, she was awarded a Faculty for the Future fellowship for women in science to do a postdoc with Prof. Adrian Feiguin at Northeastern University in Boston. There, she worked on the development of a new approach to calculate spectral response functions probed by experimental techniques such as Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering, Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy and inelastic Neutron Scattering. Two years later, she joined the International Center for Theoretical Physics in São Paulo as a research fellow, staying there until November 2021, when she relocated to the Royal Holloway University of London.

Krissia’s research has been focused on strongly correlated phenomena in and out of equilibrium, as well as numerical methods for many-body interacting systems. Her enthusiasm for quantum thermodynamics emerged from a fruitful collaboration with Prof. Irene D’Amico, who co-supervised her during visits to the University of York in 2016 and 2017. Since then, she has been investigating many-body effects in the statistics of work and entropy production, especially in the case a phase transition is crossed in finite time.

She joined QuSys as a postdoc in October 2022.