Angela Capel Cuevas

Dr. Angela Capel Cuevas is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics since April 2024. Previously, she held a Junior Professorship (W1) at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen's Mathematical Physics area (2021-2024), and was an MCQST Distinguished PostDoc at Technische Universität München (2020-2021). Her research sits at the intersection of Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Many-Body Systems, focusing on quantum dissipative evolutions and their mathematical characterization through quantum functional inequalities and entropic bounds.

• 2023-26: CRC TRR 352 grant on "Mathematics of Many-Body Quantum Systems" (7M€)
• 2024-27: QuantERA project "Towards a useful quantum advantage" (TouQan, 1.25M€)

Her recent work demonstrates rapid thermalization in 1D quantum systems with logarithmic time scaling and establishes exponential mutual information decay for Gibbs states. She co-organized BIRS-IMAG workshops on quantum information theory and received the Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award (2023). Her PhD thesis (ICMAT/Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2019) introduced quasi-factorization techniques for relative entropy, leading to groundbreaking results in quantum functional inequalities.

• 2023: Simons Emmy Noether Fellowship at Perimeter Institute
• 2023: Forbes 30 Under 30 Spain
• 2022: Vicent Caselles RSME-FBBVA Award