Marina Huerta

Marina Huerta is a Professor at the Balseiro Institute (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina) and a researcher at CONICET. Her work spans theoretical physics, quantum information, and quantum field theory, with a focus on entanglement entropy, holography, and quantum gravity.

• Education: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto Balseiro, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (PhD, 2000)
• Institutions: Centro Atómico Bariloche (CONICET, CNEA), Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study (2005, 2014)

Her research explores geometric entropy, holographic principles, and quantum gravity, using interlacing entropy as an order parameter for confinement and phase transitions. She has contributed to the understanding of the Bekenstein bound via relative entropy and distinguishability of states.

Her publications (e.g., Physical Review D, JHEP) address entanglement entropy in quantum field theory, holography, and the c-Theorem. Themes include renormalization group flows, conformal field theory, and topological order.

• New Horizons in Physics (2015): Breakthrough Prize for work on entropy in quantum field theory and gravity
• Dirac Medal (ICTP) (2024): Joint award for foundational contributions to entanglement entropy

At Centro Atómico Bariloche, Huerta's lab investigates holographic connectivity and physics beyond event horizons. She co-organized the 2019 'Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone' workshop and delivers public lectures on special relativity and entanglement entropy.