Ayaka Usui

Research experience

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) overseas research fellow, September 2024 - present

  • • Anna Sanpera's group, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

• Postdoctoral fellow, October 2023 - August 2024

  • •  Verònica Ahufinger Breto's group, UAB

• Maria de Maeztu Postdoctoral fellow, October 2021 - September 2023

  • • Bruno Julià-Díaz's group, Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB)

• JSPS Postdoctoral fellow (PD), January - September 2021

  • • Thomas Busch's group (Quantum Systems Unit), Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Japan

• JSPS Research fellow (DC2), April 2020 - December 2020

• Visiting PhD student, September - December 2019

  • • Marcus Huber's group, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information - IQOQI Vienna, Austria

• PhD student, September 2016 - December 2020

  • • Thomas Busch's group (Quantum Systems Unit), OIST, Japan

• Intern student, July - August 2016

  • • Dieter Jaksch's group, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

• Master student, April 2014 - March 2016

  • • Makoto Tsubota's group, Osaka City University, Japan

• Bachelor student, April 2010 - March 2014

  • • Makoto Tsubota's group, Osaka City University, Japan

Funding

• KAKENHI as a Research fellow of JSPS, April 2020 - March 2022.

Award

• Special Mention by the Peter Gruss Doctoral Dissertation Excellence Award Committee at OIST for academic year 2020-2021.

Education

• PhD, December 2020

  • • Thomas Busch's group (Quantum Systems Unit), Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan.

• Master's degree, March 2016

  • • Makoto Tsubota's group, Osaka City University, Japan.

• Bachelor's degree, March 2014

  • • Makoto Tsubota's group, Osaka City University, Japan.

Teaching experience

• Vector Calculus Identities, January 2019

  • • Basics of vector calculus

    • Line, surface, and volume integrals

• Linear Algebra, October - November 2018

  • • Inverse Matrix

    • Eigenvalues and eigenvectors

• Calculus of Variations: Dynamics of particles, April 2018

  • • Euler-Lagrange equation

    • Generalised coordinates and momenta

    • Action and the Lagrangian

Others

• I had an interview in June 2019 as a female researcher who participated in the Lindau meeting 2019 [Link].

• My hobby is running (Half marathon 21.0975km, my best time is 2:16:28).