James Nelson

I am a computational scientist with a PhD in physics and several years experience working as a quantum software developer. My PhD was centred around applying machine learning models to various problems in physics including: discovering new ferromagnets, speeding up solving the Hubbard Model and analysing memory effects in Heisenberg Spin Chains. 

I previously worked for ICHEC on a project analysing the suitability of near term quantum computers for simulating chemical reactions using the VQE algorithm. I spent two years as a Senior Software Developer at Q-CTRL (based in Australia), where my principle role was to develop the Boulder Opal Python package (a package primarily for quantum control simulations and optimizations).