Sebastian Deffner
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| fields = Quantum Thermodynamics
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| academic_advisors = * Christopher Jarzynski
| doctoral_advisor = Eric Lutz
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| known_for = *Quantum Thermodynamics
- Quantum Speed Limits for Open Systems
- Shortcuts to Adiabaticity
- Quantum Heat Engines and Refrigerators
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| thesis_title = Nonequilibrium Entropy Production in Open and Closed Quantum Systems
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Sebastian Deffner is a German theoretical physicist and a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).{{Cite web|url=https://physics.umbc.edu/people/faculty/deffner/|title=Sebastian Deffner – Department of Physics – UMBC|website=physics.umbc.edu|access-date=23 April 2020}} He is known for his contributions to the development of quantum thermodynamics with focus on the thermodynamics of quantum information, quantum speed limit for open systems, quantum control and shortcuts to adiabaticity.
Education
Deffner received his Diplom-Physiker (Master of Science) in 2008 from the University of Augsburg; and he received his doctorate from the same university in 2011 under the supervision of {{ill|Eric Lutz|de}}.{{Cite web|url=https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/mntf/physik/research/drthesis/|title=Dissertationen|website=www.uni-augsburg.de|access-date=23 April 2020}}
Career
From 2008 until 2011, Deffner was a research fellow at the University of Augsburg.{{Cite web|url=https://cnls.lanl.gov/External/people/Sebastian_Deffner.php|title=Center for Nonlinear Studies|website=cnls.lanl.gov|access-date=23 April 2020}} From 2011 to 2014, he was a Research Associate in the group of Christopher Jarzynski at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for which he had received the DAAD postdoctoral fellowship.{{Cite web|url=https://academicminute.org/2017/12/sebastian-deffner-university-of-maryland-baltimore-county-quantum-supremacy/|title=Sebastian Deffner, University of Maryland Baltimore County – Quantum Supremacy|date=11 December 2017|website=The Academic Minute|language=en-US|access-date=23 April 2020}}{{failed verification|date=May 2021}}
From 2014 to 2016, he took up the position of a Director’s Funded Postdoctoral Fellow with Wojciech H. Zurek at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Since 2016, he has held a position as a faculty member of the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where he leads the quantum thermodynamics group, and a position as a Visiting Professor at the University of Campinas in Brazil.
Recognition
Deffner’s contributions to quantum thermodynamics have been recognized through the 2016 Early Career Award from the New Journal of Physics, as well as the Leon Heller Postdoctoral Publication Prize from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2016. Since 2017, Deffner has been a member of the international editorial board for IOP Publishing's Journal of Physics Communications,{{Cite web|url=https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2399-6528/page/Editorial-Board|title=Editorial Board – Journal of Physics Communications – IOPscience|website=iopscience.iop.org|access-date=23 April 2020}} and since 2019 he has been on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics,{{Cite web|url=https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/jnet/jnet-overview.xml|title=Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics|website=De Gruyter|language=en|access-date=23 April 2020}} and a member of the Section Board for Quantum Information of Entropy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/sectioneditors/quantum_information|title=Entropy|website=www.mdpi.com|language=en|access-date=23 April 2020}} He is also a member of the inaugural editorial board of PRX Quantum.{{Cite web|url=https://journals.aps.org/prxquantum/staff|title=PRX Quantum|website=www.journals.aps.org/prxquantum/|date=11 June 2020|language=en|access-date=6 July 2020}}
- 2017 APS Outstanding Referee (American Physical Society).{{Cite web|url=https://journals.aps.org/OutstandingReferees|title=Physical Review Journals – Outstanding Referees|website=journals.aps.org|access-date=23 April 2020}}
- 2016 Leon Heller Postdoctoral Publication Prize (Los Alamos National Laboratory).{{Cite web|url=https://www.lanl.gov/science-innovation/science-highlights/2017/2017-01.php#award-4|title=Science Highlights, January 18, 2016|last=Los Alamos National Laboratory, Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy|website=www.lanl.gov|language=en|access-date=23 April 2020}}
- 2016 Early Career Award (New Journal of Physics).{{Cite web|url=https://cnls.lanl.gov/External/|title=Center for Nonlinear Studies|website=cnls.lanl.gov|access-date=23 April 2020}}
Personal life
As of 2020, Deffner is married to Catherine Nakalembe, a remote sensing scientist. They have 2 children.{{cite news |title=My work helps improve people's livelihoods |url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/magazines/full-woman/my-work-helps-improve-people-s-livelihoods-2483160 |access-date=25 January 2021 |work=Daily Monitor |date=16 October 2020 |language=en}}
See also
Books
- {{Cite book |author= Deffner, Sebastian|author2=Campbell, Steve|title=Quantum Thermodynamics: An introduction to the thermodynamics of quantum information |publisher=IOP Publishing |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-64327-658-8 |url=https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-1-64327-658-8}}
References
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External links
- [https://quthermo.umbc.edu/ Quantum Thermodynamics] at UMBC, led by Sebastian Deffner
- [https://quthermo.umbc.edu/group-members/sebastian-deffner/ Sebastian Deffner] at UMBC
- [https://publons.com/researcher/786403/sebastian-deffner Sebastian Deffner] at Publons
- [https://arxiv.org/a/deffner_s_1.html Sebastian Deffner] at arXiv
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Category:German theoretical physicists