Daniel Grimmer



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I am currently a Hertz Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bonn. Before this, I completed a DPhil (a.k.a. a Ph.D.) in Philosophy at the University of Oxford supported by a Clarendon scholarship at Reuben College.

Concurrently with my DPhil, I was a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the Barrio RQI research group who themselves are mostly at the University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute.

Prior to beginning my DPhil, I completed Oxford's one-year MSt in Philosophy of Physics at Pembroke College. This is an excellent program for philosophically-minded physicists.

Before my switch to philosophy of physics, I completed my Ph.D. in Physics-Quantum Information at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) in the University of Waterloo (UW). At UW I worked with Eduardo Martin-Martinez (Barrio RQI) and Robert B. Mann.

My previous Ph.D. thesis (arxiv) established the foundations of the Interpolated Collision Model formalism, a tool for studying the dynamics of open quantum systems undergoing generic repeated updates. This formalism has been applied to study purification, thermalization, friction and most recently the Unruh Effect.