{"id":158271,"date":"2023-02-16T16:29:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/a-future-with-quantum-biology-with-alexandra-olaya-castro"},"modified":"2023-02-16T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:29:26","slug":"a-future-with-quantum-biology-with-alexandra-olaya-castro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/a-future-with-quantum-biology-with-alexandra-olaya-castro","title":{"rendered":"A future with quantum biology \u2014 with Alexandra Olaya-Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A future with quantum biology - with Alexandra Olaya-Castro\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rYYHQYx_QvY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientific and technological advances have enabled us to zoom into the biological world. We can get down to the biomolecular scale, a domain where quantum phenomena can take place and therefore cannot be neglected.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Q&amp;A with Alexandra here: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_rElT2_NukY\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/_rElT2_NukY<\/a><br \/> Subscribe for regular science videos: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/RiSubscRibe\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/RiSubscRibe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This talk was recorded at the Royal Institution on 28 October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Upon completing her doctoral studies in 2005 at the University of Oxford, Alexandra Olaya-Castro was subsequently awarded a three-year Junior Research Fellowship by Trinity College (Oxford), where she began her independent research career.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2008 Alexandra Olaya-Castro obtained a five-year EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship that allowed her to start a research group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of University College London. She was then appointed as a Lecturer in September 2011, was promoted to Reader in October 2015 and to full Professor in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout her career Alexandra has made scientific contributions to the understanding of signatures and implications of quantum coherence in a variety of quantum systems that include exciton condensates in quantum wells, multi-qubit systems embedded in optical cavities and, her current focus, photo-activated biomolecular systems.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/a-future-with-quantum-biology-with-alexandra-olaya-castro\">Continue reading \u201cA future with quantum biology \u2014 with Alexandra Olaya-Castro\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific and technological advances have enabled us to zoom into the biological world. We can get down to the biomolecular scale, a domain where quantum phenomena can take place and therefore cannot be neglected. Watch the Q&amp;A with Alexandra here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/_rElT2_NukY Subscribe for regular science videos: http:\/\/bit.ly\/RiSubscRibe. This talk was recorded at the Royal Institution [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}