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Alice Chapman

Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node

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Research Postgraduate - Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices Node in the Department of Engineering

Biography

Alice Chapman is a PhD student in quantum engineering at Durham University, where she also completed her undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Physics and a Master’s in Data Science. Her research focuses on quantum decoherence in spin defects in silicon carbide, including the hyperfine interactions that limit coherence in solid-state quantum networks. Her Master’s thesis built a noise-aware digital twin of the V2 silicon-vacancy magnetometer in 4H-SiC and applied machine learning to detect, localise and denoise magnetic resonance signals. She teaches first-year Electrical Machines laboratories in Durham’s Department of Engineering, serves as MCR Treasurer at St Chad’s College, and holds a Community Scholarship.

Research interests

  • -Spin defects in wide-bandgap semiconductors
  • -Machine learning for quantum technologies
  • -Quantum networks
  • -Silicon carbide (4H-SiC silicon vacancy)
  • -Decoherence and hyperfine interactions