Nicole Yunger Halpern
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University of Maryland, College Park
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical PhysicsNicole Yunger Halpern | |
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| Alma mater | Dartmouth College, University of Waterloo, California Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Quantum thermodynamics |
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| Fields | Quantum thermodynamics |
| Institutions | National Institute of Standards and Technology
University of Maryland, College Park Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics |
| Thesis | Quantum Steampunk: Quantum Information, Thermodynamics, Their Intersection, and Applications Thereof Across Physics (2018) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Preskill |
| Website | https://quics.umd.edu/people/nicole-yunger-halpern |
Nicole Yunger Halpern is an American author and theoretical physicist specializing in quantum thermodynamics. She works at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is a fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, and an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.[1]
Yunger Halpern received her bachelor's degree in physics from Dartmouth College in 2011 and a masters degree in physics at the University of Waterloo in 2013. She received a PhD in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 2018, where she studied under John Preskill.[2][3] Her dissertation was titled "Quantum Steampunk: Quantum Information, Thermodynamics, Their Intersection, and Applications Thereof Across Physics".[4] From 2018–2021 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics at Harvard University.[3]
