Dorje Brody and Cesare Tronci part of a team that has been awarded a $3M grant by the Templeton Foundation

The Templeton Foundation in the US has awarded a team, led by Professor Jim Al-Khalili and Dr Andrea Rocco in the Department of Physics, a grant of $3million for the project “Life on the Edge: quantum thermodynamics, quantum biology and the arrow of time“. Dorje Brody and Cesare Tronci are co-investigators. Cesare will be leading the supervision of a Postdoctoral Fellow, to start in Autumn 2021, to work on the mathematics of the quantum-classical interface. The University announcement is here, and the London Times announcement is here. The image below shows Cesare elaborating on the governing equations of hybrid quantum-classical dynamics.

Dr Cesare Tronci at work.