Caroline De Groot Email & Phone Number

Germany

I founded and am director of Alpinehearts, a non-profit climbing Verein in the Alps which empowers women & queer folks in the climbing community! Visit our website for more information! www.alpinehearts-climbingfestival.comWe organise a yearly climbing festival, taking place in the Swiss Alps. The event's purpose is to celebrate and support women and queer folks, bringing the community together around all things Alpine, including trad climbing, sport climbing and bouldering. With this festival, we want to create a safe and inclusive space for people of all genders to connect, find joy, and grow their confidence through connection with nature and climbing.

Garching, Germany

As part of the Europe Community team, focusing on education, growth, and outreach for quantum computing with Qiskit. Teamwork, collaboration with global teams, on several projects across Europe. Diverse nature of projects: strategy development, student mentoring, development of educational content, organisation of meet-ups, hackathons, seminars.

St Andrews

http://coldatoms.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Code error correction & optimisation for different laser patternsProject report writing & poster presentationCollaboration with colleagues

Moscow, Russian Federation

I worked on a small part of an adaptive quantum state tomography protocol, testing whether approximating via truncating the Schmidt decomposition would increase the efficiency and accuracy of iterations of measurements moving towards the best one. The aim of quantum tomography is to reconstruct the quantum state at hand by taking measurements of identically prepared states, but obviously this is highly inefficient. An adaptive tomography protocol was recently illustrated that picks the next best measurements using tricks from the foundations of quantum mechanics. My main work was reproducing the codes for this algorithm in Mathematica first, and then in C++. Lastly, as a final test of the method developed, I was shown how to work the experimental set up and what each part of the optical set up does. We found that the decomposition worked just as well for pure states, but for a mixed state actually performed slightly worse. This is still an interesting result in itself.

St Andrews

In this project we developed a GUI in Matlab, modifying the already-existing GUI that the group works with to do statistical analysis on their fluorescent single molecules. The project aim was to make the current program more visually pleasing and add in the analysis of a new parameter. I also shadowed a PhD student working there who showed me how to prepare samples and conduct the experiments.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Physics

Master’S Degree, Theoretical Physics Mphys, First-Class

Dean's List 2016/2017, 2014/2015 Physics Summer Internship Award 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Rector's Scholar 2016 Waterpolo Half Blue 2015/2016

High School, International Baccalaureate, 42

Sixth Form Maths Award

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