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Email: emartinm@uwaterloo.ca
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/emmfis/
2-USER PROFILE
4-RECOGNITIONS
• Best Ph.D. Theses among all PhD graduates awarded with ’summa cum
laude’ at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (the largest in Spain) for
“The novel contributions to the establishment of a new field”.
http://pendientedemigracion.ucm.es/bouc/completos/2012/11.pdf
Summary table:
Total
Program Role Share Start Date End Date
Funding
Ontario Early Researcher
PI $150,000 $150,000 2017 2022
Award
Number of participating researchers other than the PI: None
NSERC Discovery Grant PI $145,000 $145,000 2015 2020
Number of participating researchers other than the PI: None
Startup Grant (AP) PI $45,000 $45,000 2016 2019
Number of participating researchers other than the PI: None
International Research
Co-PI $20,500 $5,200 2016 2017
Partnership Grant
Number of participating researchers other than the PI: 4
Polanyi Prize for Physics Awar
$20,000 $20,000 2014 2015
Award dee
Number of participating researchers other than the PI: None
Startup Grant (RAP) PI $12,600 $12,600 2014 2015
Number of participating researchers other than the PI: None
Banting Fellowship
PI $40,000 $40,000 2012 2014
Research Grant
This grant was given to the applicant on top of the Polanyi prize to fund his own
research project without any supervisory involvement.
Number of participating researchers other than the PI: None
Quantum Information Co-
$1,535,000 $30,000 2010 2012
Technology in Madrid Inv.
Funding agency: Provincial Government of Madrid
Number of participating researchers other than the PI: 24
Spanish National Co-
$36,000 $12,000 2009 2012
Research Plan Grant Inv.
Funding agency: Provincial Government of Madrid
Number of participating researchers other than the PI: 2
TOTAL $1,845,100 $309,800
7-ACTIVITIES
Role of
Student Dr. Martin- Program Period Current Status
Martinez
Irene NSERC 2017- Graduate
Supervisor
Melgarejo-lermas USRA 2018 student at UW
Undergraduate
Irene IQC student at
Supervisor 2017
Lopez-Gutierrez USEQUIP Imperial College
London
NSERC Graduate
Emma McKay Supervisor 2016
USRA student at UW
NSERC Undergraduate
Petar Simidzija Supervisor 2016
USRA student at UW
Graduate
Christopher 2013-
Supervisor URA student at UCAL
Sutherland 2014
(USA)
NSERC Graduate
Brian Fernandes Co-Supervisor 2014
USRA student at UW
Graduate
Alvaro Martin- IQC
Co-Supervisor 2013 student at UCL
Alhambra USEQUIP
(UK).
Graduate
NSERC
David Aasen Co-Supervisor 2012 student at
USRA
Caltech (USA).
2010- Postdoc in Univ.
Miguel Montero Co-Supervisor CSIC URF
2012 Utrech
Role of
Student Dr. Martin- Graduation Current Status
Martinez
September “Space underwriter” at
Ana Blasco Co-Supervisor
2014 Allianz Insurance
Ms. Blasco published 3 papers derived from her MSc. (Refs. [49,52,59] on the list),
including a paper in Physcal Review Letters, the most prestigious journal in the field.
She now works as an underwriter of space missions for Allianz Insurance.
Alejandro PhD. Student at ICFO
Supervisor June 2015
Pozas-Kertjsens (Spain)
Alejandro’s PSI Master’s. research has yielded so far two papers published in high-
impact peer-reviewed journals (Ref. [65] and [54] on the list of publications). He was
admitted as a PhD student at ICFO, one of the most prestigious quantum science and
technologies centres in Europe. He delivered a contributed talk about his MSc research
at the most important international conference of the field of RQI: RQI-N 2016 (can be
viewed at https://youtu.be/i-mStC-E1l0)
Nicholas Funai Supervisor June 2016 PhD. Student with Eduardo
After the completion of his PSI Master’s, Nicholas has been awarded a Mike and
Ophelia Lazaridis Scholarship at the IQC. This is one of the most competitive
scholarships at the University of Waterloo and is given “based on academic excellence
and potential for research in quantum information” https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-
quantum-computing/programs/graduate-studies/scholarships. He delivered a
contributed talk at the most international conference of the field of RQI: RQI-N 2016
(can be viewed at https://youtu.be/i-mStC-E1l0)
Started
Current MSc. Student with
Alison Sachs Co-Supervisor September
Eduardo
2015
In less than a year as a Master’s student, Allison Sachs has carried out research that
she delivered in contributed talks at the most important international conference of the
field of RQI: RQI-N 2016 (can be viewed at https://youtu.be/L1tM2DM0Zvc). She is
currently finishing a paper that will be submitted to a high-impact peer-reviewed
journal.
PSI MSc. Student with
Richard Lopp Supervisor July 2017
Eduardo
During her PhD to date, Ana has developed techniques of energy-less communication
in cosmology. She has published 1 paper in a high-impact peer reviewed journal so far
during her PhD thesis (Reference in the list of publications).
Started April Current MSc. Student with
Maria Papageorgiou Co-Supervisor
2017 Eduardo
Maria has started working in topics related with the gravitational interaction of quantum
systems.
Started
Current MSc. Student with
Emma Mckay Supervisor September
Eduardo
2017
Emma is pursuing two different research lines during her masters: On the one hand
They are exploring superconducting circuits as a means to model effective field
theories and they arealso exploring the role of information in quantum
thermodynamics.
Started September Current MSc. With
Erickson Tjoa Supervisor
2017 Eduardo
Erickson works on the light matter interaction in the relativistic regime.
Role of
Student Dr. Martin- Started Current Status
Martinez
September PSI MSc. Student with
Richard Lopp Supervisor
2017 Eduardo
During her PhD to date, Ana has developed techniques of energy-less communication
in cosmology. She has published 1 paper in a high-impact peer reviewed journal so far
during her PhD thesis (Reference in the list of publications).
Started
PhD. Student at UW Applied
Nicholas Funai Supervisor September
Mathematics
2016
After the completion of his PSI Master’s, Nicholas has been awarded a Mike and
Ophelia Lazaridis Scholarship at the IQC. This is one of the most competitive
scholarships at the University of Waterloo and is given “based on academic excellence
and potential for research in quantum information” https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-
quantum-computing/programs/graduate-studies/scholarships. He delivered several a
contributed talks at the most important international conferences of the field of RQI: for
example the one for RQI-N 2016 (can be viewed at https://youtu.be/i-mStC-E1l0)
Started
Nayeli Rodriguez-
Co-Supervisor September PhD. Student at UW Physics
Briones
2015
In her first year as a PhD student, Nayeli has earned two different highly-competitive
doctoral scholarships. CONACYT (from the Government of Mexico) and a Mike and
Ophelia Lazaridis Scholarship at the IQC. The latter is one of the most competitive
scholarships at the University of Waterloo and is given “based on academic excellence
and potential for research in quantum information” https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-
quantum-computing/programs/graduate-studies/scholarships She’s published several
papers in Physical Review Letters and delivered talks at international conferences..
Current MSc.
Started September
Daniel Grimmer Co-Supervisor Student with
2015
Eduardo
In less than a year as a Master’s student, Daniel has carried out research that has led
to a paper submitted to a high-impact factor journal and delivered a contributed talk at
the most important international conference of the field of RQI: RQI-N 2016 (can be
viewed at https://youtu.be/2dRjLCojKEo). In his last graduate committee meeting he
was nominated to fast-track to the PhD program at the University of Waterloo for
acquiring skills beyond what is required for an MSc student.
Wil Start September MSc. Student at
Jose De Ramon Supervisor
2017 UCM (Spain)
As an undergraduate, Jose de Ramon has worked with Luis Garay and Eduardo on
thermalization in quantum field theory and the Anti-Unruh effect. Out of this
collaboration we have written a paper ([69] on the list of publications) and a talk at an
international conference https://youtu.be/_II4hotBlIo
University policies did not allow Dr. Martin-Martinez to officially count as supervisor
for these students but he did full supervising work for the following students:
Waterloo
Remarks
• Both official and non-official supervisions are backed up with published papers
with the students. In particular Dr. Martin-Martinez has published 30 articles
with undergraduate and graduate supervised students.
• 15 of those articles (see below) were published only with students as coauthors,
with no other senior researchers in the author list.
7.5 - Teaching
Hours
Term Course Course Name Centre
(lecturing)
Winter 2018 AMATH 475 Intro. General Relativity 40 U. of Waterloo
Fall 2017 PHYS 358 Thermal Physics 40 U. of Waterloo
Winter 2017 AMATH 475 Intro. General Relativity 40 U. of Waterloo
Winter 2017 ECE 205 Advanced Calculus 40 U. of Waterloo
Fall 2016 PHYS 256 Optics 40 U. of Waterloo
Winter 2016 PHYS 233 Intro. to Quantum Theory 40 U. of Waterloo
Fall 2015 PHYS 358 Thermal Physics 40 U. of Waterloo
Fall 2015 AMATH 473 Quantum Theory 2 40 U. of Waterloo
Winter 2015 ECE 211 Advanced Calculus 40 U. of Waterloo
Fall 2014 PHYS 434 Quantum Physics 3 40 U. of Waterloo
Winter 2014 MATH 217 Calculus 3 40 U. of Waterloo
Fall 2013 MATH 211 Advanced Calculus 40 U. of Waterloo
Winter 2013 PHYS 434 Quantum Physics 3 40 U. of Waterloo
Content of the courses and course notes written by Dr. Martin-Martinez specifically
for these courses can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/site/emmfis/teaching
Advanced Topics in U. of
Spring 2013 QIP 890 8
Quantum Information Waterloo
Relativistic
U. Of
Spring 2013 Summer School Quantum 28
Waterloo
Information
7.6 - Service
• Member of the Local Organizing committee of the RQI-N 2012 (The largest yearly
Relativistic Quantum Information Conference) hosted at the Perimeter Institute in
June 2012.
• Member of the local organizing committee for the “International RQI-N 2011”
(The largest yearly Relativistic Quantum Information Conference) held in
Madrid in September 2011.
Outreach Activities
• Host of a table as one of the “25 Canadian Leading Scientists” invited to host
the Gala Dinner 2015 of the Royal Canadian Institute (Link here, table 19:
http://rciscience.ca/gala-dinners/2015-gala-dinner/gala-2015-table-hosts/ )
• Participation in ‘Ask a scientist’ as a host in the Open Gates day at the Institute
for Quantum Computing in September 2013.
8-CONTRIBUTIONS
8.1-Presentations
8-Theory Canada 9
Institution: Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada)
Organizer: Canadian Association of Physicists
Contribution: Contributed Talk (“Quantum information and the early Universe”)
Date: June 13-14, 2014
http://theorycanada9.wlu.ca/
7-Loops 2013
Institution: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Organizer: Prof. Lee Smolin among many others (see the website)
Contribution: Contributed Talk (“The quantum information echo of the Quantum
Bounce”)
Date: July 22-29, 2013
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/conferences/loops-13
8.1.3 Posters
30-Invited Talk: “Learning from the Early Universe through violations of the strong
Huygens effect”
Institution: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
Invited by: Prof. Luis J. Garay
Date: December 2014
19-Invited Talk: “On quantum signaling in cavity QED and light-matter interaction
models”
Institution: Imperial College London (United Kingdom)
Invited by: Prof. Fay Dowker
Date: 20th June 2013
6-Invited Talk: “Quantum Information Science and Quantum Optics as tools to probe
the spacetime structure”
Institution: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Waterloo (Canada)
Invited by: Prof. Michele Mosca
Date: 31st October 2011
5-Invited Talk: “Using Berry's phase to detect the Unruh effect at lower accelerations”
Institution: Science and Technology School, Universidad del País Vasco. Bilbao
(Spain)
Invited by: Dr. Enrique Solano and Dr. Iñigo Eguskiza
Date: 17th November 2010
4-Invited Talk: “Alice through the event horizon: A story of decoherence, statistics and
paradoxes”
Institution: Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Imperial College London). London
(United Kingdom)
Invited by: Dr. Daniel Burgarth
Date: 13th July 2010
3-Invited Talk: “Alice through the event horizon: A story of decoherence, statistics and
paradoxes”
Institution: Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford. Oxford (United Kingdom)
Invited by: Professor Vlatko Vedral
Date: 11th June 2010
To contextualize the impact factors given in this section, note that the average field
impact factor (FIF) for Physics and Astronomy is ~1.0 and that, discounting Nature and
Science, the top research peer reviewed journal in the field of Physics and Astronomy
field is Physical Review Letters.
Number of Published
Journal Impact Factor (IF)
Papers
Physical Review Letters 7 8.462
Physical Review A 33 2.925
Physical Review D 31 4.568
Classical and Quantum
5 2.837
Gravity
New Journal of Physics 3 3.570
Physics Letters B 2 4.787
Journal of High Energy
1 6.023
Physics
Annals of Physics 1 2.375
Optics Communications 1 1.45
Foundations of Physics 1 1.018
Canadian Journal of
1 0.964
Physics
J. Phys A: Math. Theor. 1 1.857
3 more papers currently under review i n J. Phys A and Phys Rev. Letters. Preprints
are available on ArXiv.
Number of
citations H-Index Number of peer-reviewed publications
(Google Scholar)
2197 29 86
• However, there are exceptions to those rules that apply in some of the papers:
• There are cases where the ordering is alphabetical (since the field has
overlap with Quantum Gravity and High-Energy physics where the
convention is that all names are ordered alphabetically).
• In some of the papers that are written with co-supervised students, Eduardo
appears as last author despite not being the most senior supervisor to
acknowledge him as the driving force behind those works and in the
supervision of the student.
• Note also that Dr. Martin-Martinez had no supervisors during his Banting
Postdoctoral Fellowship; that fellowship was awarded to his own project, developed
exclusively by himself to pursue independent research and was not linked to any
supervisor.
• Publications [11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 45, 54, 67, 70, 73, 74, 75, 81]
have only undergraduate or graduate students as co-authors, no other senior
researchers.
• Note that the name of students who are coauthors at the time of publication are
boldfaced.
8.3.1 - Works under review in peer-reviewed journals
[86] New techniques for entanglement harvesting in flat and curved spacetimes.
K. K. Ng, Robert B. Mann, E. Martin-Martinez.
Accepted in Physical Review D (2018).
[76] Over the horizon: distinguishing the Schwarzschild spacetime and the RP3
spacetime using an Unruh-DeWitt detector.
K. Ng, R.. B. Mann, E. Martin-Martinez. Physical Review D, 96, 085004 (2017)
[69] Thermalization of particle detectors: The Unruh effect and its reverse
L. J. Garay, E. Martin-Martinez, J. de Ramon
Physical Review D 94, 104048 (2016)
[68] The equivalence principle and QFT: Can a particle detector tell if we live inside a
hollow shell?. K. Ng, R.. B. Mann, E. Martin-Martinez
Physical Review D 94, 104041 (2016)
[67] Entanglement Harvesting from the electromagnetic field with hydrogenlike atoms
A. Pozas-Kerstjens, E. Martin-Martinez
Physical Review D 94, 064074 (2016).
[56] Renormalized Unruh-DeWitt Particle Detector Models for Boson and Fermion
Fields. D. Hummer, E. Martin-Martinez, A. Kempf.
Physical Review D 93, 024019 (2016)
[55] Causality issues of particle detector models in QFT and Quantum Optics
E. Martin-Martinez. Physical Review D 92, 104019 (2015).
[53] 1+1 D calculation provides evidence that quantum entanglement survives a firewall
E. Martin-Martinez, J. Louko. Physical Review Letters 114, 031301 (2015)
[52] Violation of the Strong Huygen’s Principle and Timelike Signals from the Early
Universe. A. Blasco, L. J. Garay, Mercedes Martin-Benito, E. Martin-Martinez.
Physical Review Letters, 114, 141103 (2015)
[32] Detectors for probing relativistic quantum physics beyond perturbation theory
E. G. Brown, E. Martin-Martinez, N. C. Menicucci, R. B. Mann.
Physical Review D, 87, 084062 (2013)
[31] Localized projective measurement of a relativistic quantum field in non-inertial
frame. A. Dragan, J. Doukas, E. Martin-Martinez, D. E. Bruschi.
Classical and Quantum Gravity 30, 235006 (2013).
[2] Spin and occupation number entanglement of Dirac fields for non-inertial observers
J. León, E. Martin-Martinez. Physical Review A, 80, 012314 (2009)
8.2 – Interviews/Media
Reference [52] on the list of publications, entitled “Violation of the strong Huygen's
principle and timelike signals from the early Universe”, published in Physical Review
Letters, was reported about in the well-known popular science magazine “The New
Scientist” in two articles entitled Weird cosmic echoes may offer a new glimpse of Big
Bang (Online version) and Ancient echoes speak to us from the big bang (Printed
version, issue 3005).
References [51] and [52] on the list of publications, entitled “Information
transmission without energy exchange” and “Violation of the strong Huygens'
principle and timelike signals from the early Universe” published in Physical
Review Letters were featured on the popular physics outlet phys.org in an article
entitled Photon 'afterglow' could transmit information without transmitting energy.
http://phys.org/news/2015-03- photon-afterglow-transmit-transmitting-energy.html
These two works ([51] and [52]) were also reported about on the popular science
portal Science News in an article entitled Light Trick can retrieve missed messages.
https:// www.sciencenews.org/article/light-trick-can-retrieve-missed-messages
Dr. Martin-Martinez has appeared in the media both in technical interviews motivated
by his research results and for outreach and promotion of popular science. An
example of these contributions is this radio excerpt of an interview that CBC did when
he was awarded the Polanyi prize for physics: http://goo.gl/oMXYxh . There are many
other examples, for instance (https://youtu.be/rnDXZz-zzxE