
Dr Maja Cassidy
- Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Hons 1), UNSW 2005
- Masters of Science, Applied Physics, Harvard University 2010
- PhD, Applied Physics, Harvard University 2012
Dr Maja Cassidy is a Senior Lecturer, ARC DECRA Fellow and Scientia Fellow in the School of Physics. Her research focuses on developing new technologies that will be integrated into future quantum computing and sensor systems. She completed a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Hons. 1) at UNSW as a Coop scholar before moving to Harvard University, where she undertook a masters and PhD in Applied Physics. After a postdoctoral fellowship at TU Delft/QuTech, she returned to Australia where she spent 5 years as a Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Quantum, where she led quantum hardware integration. Maja joined UNSW at the end of 2022, where she leads the QMD lab, and teaches the 3rd year course Quantum Physics of Solids and Devices. She is the work package leader for quantum hardware and member of the executive for the ARC training center for Future Leaders in Quantum Computing, and the special projects officer for industry engagement for the Australian Institute of Physics.
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UNSW Scientia Fellowship (2022-2026)
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ARC DECRA Fellowship (DE240100590) On-chip microwave generation and detection with Josephson photonics (2024-2026)
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AEA Seed grant High-yield, low-cost manufacturing of quantum magnetic field sensors (2024)
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UNSW Translational Impact Seed Fund - Development of a high sensitivity, wide- band measurement setup for qubit characterization
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ARC LIEF (LE240100045) Cryogenic microwave characterization facility for quantum technologies
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ARC LIEF (LE210100040) Multifunctional deposition system for advanced superconducting circuits
- RG Menzies Scholarship to Harvard (2008)
Novel qubits
Microwave quantum optics for single photon generation and detection
Quantum sensor systems
Machine learning for quantum computing development
My Research Supervision
Mathis Batard-Rinaudo (visiting from ENS Paris)
Lukas Delventhal (Physics PhD)
Eric Helgemo (Physics MSc)
Kyle Matkovic (Physics Honours)
Andrew Palmer (Physics MPhil)
Patrick Russell (Quantum Engineering Honours)
Lasse Sweetland (Research Assistant)
Sophia Wolczak (Quantum Engineering Honours)
Past group members
Daniel Chahine (SQA summer scholar, 2024)
Gigi Chen (SQA summer scholar, 2025)
Josie Kelly (SQA summer scholar, 2024)
Sanjana Mahesh (Quantum Engineering Honours, 2024).
William Papantoniou (SQA summer scholar, 2024)
Ethan Simpson (SQA summer scholar, 2024)
Tony Youn (UNSW summer scholar, 2024)