Nadja Kolb Bernardes is a Professor of Physics at the Federal University of Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil), with research focusing on quantum information theory, particularly open quantum systems and non-Markovian dynamics. Nadja holds a PhD in Physics from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (Erlangen, Germany 2012), where she researched long-distance quantum communication. She is on the board of the Brazilian Physical Society and a researcher at the National Institute of Quantum Information Science and Technology.