Carla Verdi

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Dr Carla Verdi is currently a Lecturer at the University of Queensland, Australia. She received her PhD from the University of Oxford in 2017, where she remained as a post-doctoral researcher until 2018, specializing in the first-principles theory of the electron-phonon coupling and polaron physics. From 2019 to 2022, she was a post-doctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the University of Vienna, working on anharmonic vibrational properties and finite-temperature simulations of solids by combining first-principles methods and machine learning. After being awarded a DECRA fellowship by the Australian Research Council, in 2023 she moved to the University of Sydney in Australia. Later the same year she joined the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland as a lecturer and ARC DECRA fellow. Her current research mainly focuses on tailoring the properties of atomic defects for applications in quantum technologies.