Igor Benek-Lins

Hi! I am Igor, a physicist passionate about information science and software development, as well as a libre software, GNU/Linux enthusiast. After obtaining a PhD in physics, I worked on scientific-software development of ‘quantum’ simulation tools for modelling and characterization of superconducting qubit (transmon-based) devices.

On the research front, I worked in theoretical quantum many-body physics under the supervision of Dr Saurabh Maiti at Concordia University (Montréal, Canada). As part of my PhD thesis, I studied how coherent quantum fluctuations change the inelastic light scattering (ILS) response from superconductors. The goal was to identify and understand the features present in the response, associating them to properties of the fermionic interaction that led to the superconducting state. In particular, I modelled the response of s-wave superconductors to ILS (Raman spectroscopy) experiments when there is a sub-leading d-wave interaction.

Before getting into physics, I have worked as a GNU/Linux system administrator. I still tinker with GNU/Linux systems and I program, mostly in Python, using Evil Emacs (best of both worlds).

• Research: Learn about my research in many-body physics
• Illustrations: Some of my scientific illustrations (licensed under CC)