Felipe Herrera
Adjunct Associate Professor
Chile
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Top SchoolFelipe Herrera is an associate professor and research leader with 10+ years advancing materials and molecular platforms for quantum technologies at the intersection of chemical physics, quantum optics and quantum information. He leads the Molecular Quantum Technology group at Universidad de Santiago de Chile, holds an adjunct appointment at the University of Waterloo, and co-founded MAQI to commercialize MOF-based optical devices. His work spans theory, computational tool development and experimental collaborations, funded by national and international grants and recognized by a Royal Society Wolfson visiting fellowship. Trained as a chemist with a PhD from UBC and postdoctoral experience linked to Harvard and Purdue, he builds bridges between fundamental quantum science and practical device innovation. Notably, he has translated molecular-scale control concepts from his graduate studies into scalable materials strategies for quantum applications. Based in Chile, he combines academic leadership with entrepreneurship to accelerate optics and quantum materials from theory to market.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry at University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Science, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science, Chemistry at Universidad de Chile
English, Spanish
Github Skills (1)
jekyll7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fherreralab/fherreralab.github.io
May 2018 - Mar 2023
Website for the research group of Felipe Herrera in Santiago, Chile.
Contributions:1 review, 164 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 11 months
santiagojekyllopenscienceresearch-group
fherreralab/fherrerasite
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Migration of research group website to Netlify
Contributions:40 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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