Alexandra Olaya-Castro
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Current Information
Position: Junior Research Fellow in Physics
Institution: Trinity College, University of Oxford
Homepage: http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/cm/cmt/olaya/index.htm
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Email: a.olaya@physics.ox.ac.uk
Research
Keywords: Energy transfer in Light-Harvesting Complexes; Entanglement and Quantum Coherence; Dynamic Phenomena on Complex Systems
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Education
Undergraduate
Institution: Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas
Graduate
Institution: University of Oxford 2002-2005
Advisor: Neil F. Johnson
Thesis: Dynamics of Quantum Correlations in Multiqubit-Cavity Systems
Biography
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Biography/Timeline: I was born and grew up in a city that is 2600 meters closer to the stars, Bogota the capital of Colombia. I did my undergraduate in Physics Education at Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas. I spent a few years working for ICFES, designing and developing Physics tests for large-scale assessment of education in Colombia. I combined my work with my masters at Universidad de Los Andes where I completed my MSc thesis under Prof. Luis Quiroga. I came to Somerville College, Oxford, in October 2002 with a Clarendon Fund Scholarship and an Overseas Research Student award, and I completed my doctorate under Prof. Neil F. Johnson in the Oxford Complex Systems group, which is part of the Condensed Matter Physics Department. Before coming to Oxford, I had the chance to work with Prof. Carlos Tejedor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) and Prof. Pawel Hawrylack at the Institute for Microstructural Sciences in Ottawa, Canada. During my doctoral studies, I had the opportunity to spend a few months working in Prof. Hideo Mabuchi's group at California Institute of Technology.
