Gloria Platero Coello

Gloria Platero Coello is a Research Professor at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM) under the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). She leads the research group "New Platforms and Nanodevices for Quantum Simulation and Quantum Computation" and is affiliated with the University Institute Gregorio Millán at Carlos III University of Madrid.

Her research focuses on Quantum Simulation, Quantum Computation, and Semiconductor Physics, particularly on quantum transport in semiconductor quantum dots and Floquet engineering for quantum operations. She investigates topological low-dimensional lattices and their edge states for quantum information transfer with topological protection.

• Author of ~200 JCR publications
• Invited to write a review on AC-driven transport in nanostructures
• Over 90 invited conference talks and research stays at international centers
• Chairwoman of ICSNN 2018 (satellite conference of ICPS)
• Involved in Master’s and PhD programs at UCM and UAM universities

Scientific awards include:

• Mercator Fellow (2017/2021)
• CSIC Distinction for Scientific Merits (2017/2018)
• APS Fellow in Quantum Information

She has supervised 14 PhD students, 10 of whom continue in academia, and participated in steering committees of 30+ conferences. In 2025, she will chair the IUPAP C8 Commission on Semiconductor Physics.