Dr. Clara Wanjura

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

Main projects:

  • 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).

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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