Ayaka Usui
Affiliation: Maria de Maeztu Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB), Barcelona, Spain
Email adress: ayaka.usui(at)oist.jp
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2326-3917
ResearcherID: M-8986-2016
Research interests
Non-equilibrium physics
Thermodynamics in quantum systems
Entanglement quantifycation
Quantum metrology
Ultracold atoms
Quantum optics
Research experience
Maria de Maeztu Postdoctoral fellow at Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB), October 2021 - present
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral fellow (PD), January - September 2021
Thomas Busch's group (Quantum Systems Unit), Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, 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), Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, 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).
My Japanese name: 臼井 彩香