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