2025

Gabriel Landi

Associate professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Rochester, NY

Areas: Energy Harvesting Devices, Open Quantum Systems, Quantum Computing, Quantum Sensing, Quantum Thermodynamics, Transport and Metrology

Gabriel T. Landi is an associate professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Rochester, where he directs the Quantum Thermodynamics and Quantum Transport group (QT2). He also serves as an associate editor of Physical Review Research. Professor Landi’s research sits at the crossroads of quantum information science, open quantum systems and non-equilibrium statistical physics. He is particularly recognized for his work in quantum thermodynamics and quantum transport: developing theoretical frameworks that reformulate thermodynamic laws in the quantum-coherent regime, analyzing quantum stochastic processes and investigating how coherence and fluctuations influence energy, entropy and information in small and strongly-coupled quantum systems. His interests span theory of open quantum systems, quantum stochastic processes, quantum information theory and quantum metrology. A distinctive aspect of Professor Landi’s contributions is his design and deployment of a specialized computational framework built in Mathematica: the Melt library. Melt is a fully self-contained Mathematica notebook/package developed under his direction with the QT2 group, which provides users with a high-level yet transparent environment for simulating and analyzing open quantum systems, quantum information measures, Gaussian states, full-counting statistics and more. In his current role, he leads the QT2 research group, which applies advanced methods of quantum trajectories, full‐counting statistics and stochastic thermodynamics to explore fundamental questions (e.g., how irreversibility emerges at the quantum level) and to propose novel applications—including quantum sensing, thermal machines, energy harvesting at the nanoscale and quantum transport devices. Professor Landi’s work has gained widespread recognition in the community. His group publishes regularly in leading journals and is frequently invited to contribute to seminars and workshops on quantum thermodynamics and transport. He is also committed to mentoring the next generation of researchers and to advancing the theoretical foundations of quantum nonequilibrium physics.