Hey! I am Francisco

I am originally from Portugal and am currently based in Delft, the Netherlands. I hold bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Engineering Physics from the University of Lisbon, and a PhD from TU Delft, obtained under the supervision of Stephanie Wehner.

I am currently a Senior Research Fellow at Pivotal, working on mechanistic interpretability of large language models.

Previously, I was Head of Product at Delft Networks, a TU Delft spin-out building full-stack entanglement-based quantum networks.

Besides a scientist, I am an avid tennis player, reader, writer, and movie watcher.

News

February 2026: Started as a Senior Research Fellow with Pivotal in London.
February 2026: New preprint: Entanglement improves coordination in distributed systems.