Dr. Clara Wanjura

  • Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Theory Division
  • Room A.2.110
  • Phone +49 9131 7133 420
  • Email

Main projects:

  • Clara C. Wanjura, Florian Marquardt,
    Quantum Equilibrium Propagation for efficient training of quantum systems based on Onsager reciprocity,
    arXiv 2406.06482
     
  • Ali Momeni, Babak Rahmani, Benjamin Scellier, Logan G. Wright, Peter L. McMahon, Clara C. Wanjura, Yuhang Li, Anas Skalli, Natalia G. Berloff, et al.,
    Training of Physical Neural Networks,
    arXiv 2406.03372
     
  • Q. Wang, C. C. Wanjura, F. Marquardt,
    Training Coupled Phase Oscillators as a Neuromorphic Platform using Equilibrium Propagation.
    arXiv:2402.08579
     
  • S. Bose, M. Rademacher, I. Fuentes, H. Ulbricht, A. A. Geraci, S. Khan, S. Qvarfort, M. Rashid, M. Toroš, C. C. Wanjura,
    Massive quantum systems as interfaces of quantum mechanics and gravity,
    arXiv:2311.09218
    (commissioned by Rev Mod Phys)
     
  • C. C. Wanjura, F. Marquardt,
    Fully Non-Linear Neuromorphic Computing with Linear Wave Scattering,
    arXiv: 2308.16181 (2023).
     
  • J. J. Slim, C. C. Wanjura, M. Brunelli, J. del Pino, A. Nunnenkamp, E. Verhagen,
    Optomechanical realization of the bosonic Kitaev chain,
    arxiv:2309.05825 (2023)
    (Nature, in press).
     
  • C. C. Wanjura*, J. Slim*, J. del Pino, M. Brunelli, E. Verhagen, A. Nunnenkamp, 
    Quadrature nonreciprocity: unidirectional bosonic transmission without breaking time-reversal symmetry,
    Nature Physics (2023).
     
  • M. Brunelli, C. C. Wanjura, A. Nunnenkamp, 
    Restoration of the non-Hermitian bulk-boundary correspondence via topological amplification, 
    SciPost Phys. 15, 173 (2023).
     
  • C. C. Wanjura, M. Brunelli, A. Nunnenkamp, 
    Correspondence between non-Hermitian topology and directional amplification in the presence of disorder, 
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 213601 (2021).
     
  • C. C. Wanjura, M. Brunelli, A. Nunnenkamp, 
    Topological framework for directional amplification in driven-dissipative cavity arrays, 
    Nature Communications 11, 3149 (2020).

 

Other work:

  • B. W. J. Irwin, C. C. Wanjura, D. Molnar, M. J. Rutter, M. C. Payne, P.-L. Chau, 
    GABA receptor associated protein changes the electrostatic environment around the GABA type A receptor,
    Proteins 1- 9 (2021).

A central theme of my research is the exploration of coupled mode systems such as optical, optomechanical and photonic systems, and how to harness them for science and quantum technologies. Specifically, I am working along two main lines of research: scattering phenomena associated with non-Hermitian topology enabling devices such as topological, directional amplifiers and sensors; and neuromorphic computing.

Academic Background:

November 2022 – present:  Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

October 2018 – July 2022:  PhD Student, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

October 2017 – March 2018:  Visiting Student, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

October 2016 – July 2018:  Master’s Studies in Physics, Ulm University

October 2013 – October 2016:  Bachelor’s Studies in Physics, Ulm University

 

Selected Prizes and Awards:

March 2024:   DPG SAMOP Thesis Prize 

June 2023:   Sam Edwards Thesis Prize

June 2022:   CSAR PhD Students Award

November 2020:   Cavendish PhD Prize in Theoretical Physics
(of the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge)

October 2018 - March 2022:  Winton Scholarship (at the University of Cambridge)

December 2013 – July 2018:  Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes


Please find my detailed cv here.

 

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