Sean Thrasher

As a third-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Edinburgh, under the supervision of Prof Elham Kashefi and Dr Petros Wallden, my research focuses on the intersection of quantum computing and quantum chemistry. My work aims to demonstrate practical quantum advantage for real-world chemical problems, bridging the gap between theory and experimental reality. To this end, I explore both algorithmic innovation in adiabatic algorithms and other hybrid quantum-classical methods designed for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware. My work centres on one of the most fundamental challenges in computational chemistry: efficiently solving the many-body Schrödinger equation to predict ground-state properties of complex systems. Finally, I have experience and interests in the verification of quantum computing, in particular in scalable implementations of verification