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Dries Sels, Ph.D.

Associate Research Scientist, Center for Computational Quantum Physics

Affiliations
  • Assistant Professor, New York University
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Bio

Dries Sels joined the Flatiron Institute in 2020 as an Associate Research Scientist in the Center for Computational Quantum Physics. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at New York University. His research is focused on the development and application of new computational methods for simulating and understanding the behavior of far from equilibrium quantum systems, with a particular focus on quantum computing.

Dries received a M.Sc. from KULeuven and TUDelft, his Ph.D. from Antwerp University and he was a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University and Harvard University.

Publications

Adiabatic transport of neural network quantum states

arXiv:2510.15030, October 16, 2025

Matija Medvidović, Alev Orfi, Juan Carrasquilla, and Dries Sels

Double descent: When do neural quantum states generalize?

arXiv:2508.00068, July 31, 2025

M. Schuyler Moss, Alev Orfi, Christopher Roth, Anirvan M. Sengupta, Antoine Georges, Dries Sels, et al.

Nonperturbative decay of bipartite discrete time crystals

Physical Review B, arXiv:2411.00651, March 21, 2025

Lennart Fernandes, Joseph Tindall, and Dries Sels

Dynamics of disordered quantum systems with two- and three-dimensional tensor networks

arXiv:2503.05693, March 7, 2025

Joseph Tindall, Antonio Mello, Matt Fishman, Miles Stoudenmire, and Dries Sels

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CCQ’s mission is to develop the concepts, theories, algorithms and codes needed to solve the quantum many-body problem and use the solutions to predict the behavior of materials and molecules of scientific and technological interest.

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