Dr Carolyn Wood

Deborah Jin Research Fellow

School of Mathematics and Physics
Faculty of Science

Overview

Carolyn is a theoretical physicist studying quantum information and quantum foundations. She grew up in central Queensland and holds bachelor’s degrees in physics (UQ) and applied linguistics (Griffith University). She completed her PhD in physics at the University of Queensland.

Her research is focused on physics at the interface between quantum mechanics, general relativity and thermodynamics, quantum machine learning, and the applications of both to quantum information theory and quantum computing. She is also broadly interested in artificial intelligence, and cross-disciplinary research combining physics and linguistics.

Carolyn was awarded a Deborah Jin Research Fellowship by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS) in 2022.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy of Physics, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Science in Physics, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Science in Physics, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Griffith University
  • Bachelor of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Griffith University

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