You hear about Aida Lovelace Tara Murphy, author and Irish PhD student at Cambridge University working in quantum technologies

Tara Murphy, is an Irish PhD student at Cambridge working in quantum technologies, who has recently written a children’s book called Qubit the Cat. It’s a children’s story that introduces quantum computing in a playful and accessible way. Tara knows quantum computing usually sounds like something only researchers or tech companies talk about, but she wanted to show that children can meet these ideas much earlier, through imagination and storytelling.

I recently caught up with Tara to find out more about her and her latest book. Tara talks about her background, stem, her books, quantum and more.

More about Tara Murphy:

Tara is a recently graduated Theoretical Physics Student at Trinity College Dublin Ireland and last year she completed her MRes in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge. Tara has  an interest in both Mathematical Physics and Machine Learning and hopes to combine these areas of physics throughout her future career. 

Tara also has a wide knowledge of various mathematical concepts in physics as well as experience in experimental physics, having completed four experimental and computational internships at Tyndall National Institute, VULCAN Laser Research Facility, IBM Research Ireland and Quantum Motion Technologies at UCL. Tara is currently pursuing her PhD on applying Machine Learning strategies and simulating Quantum Technologies with Quantum Motion Technologies.

See more podcasts here.