Augustin Vanrietvelde’s research focuses on the study of quantum theory’s compositional and causal structures, with a mathematical and formal approach. He has worked on quantum causal models, coherent control, quantum computation architectures, indefinite causal order, and quantum reference frames. Most recently, he has been focusing on the mathematical underpinnings of causal structures in quantum theory, and on compositional structures in the presence of symmetry. He did his PhD within the University of Oxford’s Quantum Group, under the supervision of Jonathan Barrett, Giulio Chiribella, and Bob Coecke. He was then as a postdoctoral researcher at the ENS Saclay’s Quacs group before joining Télécom in 2023, as an assistant professor in the Quriosity team.