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Dr Maja Clare Cassidy

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Dr Maja Cassidy is an experimental physicist working at the intersection of condensed matter physics and quantum devices. She is currently a Scientia Fellow and Senior Lecture at the School of Physics at UNSW, where she leads the Quantum Materials and Devices group. Maja did her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering as a Coop Scholar at UNSW, working with Prof Andrew Dzurak at the Center for Quantum Computing Technology. She then...view more

Dr Maja Cassidy is an experimental physicist working at the intersection of condensed matter physics and quantum devices. She is currently a Scientia Fellow and Senior Lecture at the School of Physics at UNSW, where she leads the Quantum Materials and Devices group. Maja did her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering as a Coop Scholar at UNSW, working with Prof Andrew Dzurak at the Center for Quantum Computing Technology. She then moved to the US, completing her PhD at Harvard University as a RG Menzies scholar in 2012 under the supervision of Prof Charles Marcus. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at QuTech/TU Delft with Prof Leo Kouwenhoven in the Netherlands, and worked on hybrid superconducting circuits and topological materials. Before joining UNSW, she was a Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Quantum from 2017-2022.  

 

 


My Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Hons 1), UNSW 2005
  • Masters of Science, Applied Physics, Harvard University 2010
  • PhD, Applied Physics, Harvard University 2012

 


My Awards

  • RG Menzies Scholarship to Harvard (2008)

My Research Activities

 

 

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