Dr. Eleni Agathocleous is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Cyprus Institute. She received her PhD in Mathematics (Algebraic and Algorithmic Number Theory) from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research is interdisciplinary, focusing on the interactions between number theory, post-quantum cryptography, and quantum computing. Before joining The Cyprus Institute, she held research positions at leading institutes in Germany. She worked on the ALMACRYPT (Algorithmic and Mathematical Cryptology) project at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, on post-quantum cryptography and quantum computing at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), and received a research grant from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, where she continued her work on the mathematical foundations of isogeny-based cryptography. She participated in the Women in Numbers Network and has been invited to present her work at international conferences and seminars.

Iosifina Angelidi is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The Cyprus Institute, specialising in quantum entanglement and the dynamics of quantum circuits. Her research focuses on the emergence and control of long-range entanglement in stochastic quantum circuits in one and two dimensions, with particular interest in how randomness, measurement, and circuit structure give rise to complex quantum correlations. She is also interested in exploring the level statistics and Poincaré recurrence of translationally-invariant Clifford and Clifford+T circuits, aiming to uncover their connections to quantum chaos, integrability, and computational complexity. She holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics (Quantum Information) from University College London (UCL), an MSc in Physics with Quantum Dynamics from Imperial College London, and a BSc in Theoretical Physics from the University of Leeds.