Biography
Education
Ph.D., Physics, Uppsala University; Uppsala, Sweden — 2004.
Dissertation: Core-Hole Dynamics and Eletronic Structure of Ozone.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Davis; Davis, CA — 2004-2006
Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute; Santa Fe, NM — 2004
Awards
Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research,
University of California, Davis, — 2007
Charles
Kittel Award for Best Theoretical Research by a Postdoctoral Fellow, APS
California Section Meeting, — 2006.
Professors for the Future Fellow, University of California Davis, Davis, CA — 2005.
Ångström Premium for Excellence in Research, Uppsala University; Uppsala Sweden —
2004.
Philip Steinmetz Fellow, Santa Fe Institute; Santa Fe, NM — 2003.
Teaching Experience
Guest lectures, Graduate Course “Natural Computational and Self-Organization”; UC Davis — 2006
“Finitary Computation in Quantum Dynamics”
Guest lecture, Graduate Course “Quantum Dynamics”; UC Davis — 2006
“Quantum Finite-State Machines”
Lecture, Complex Systems Summer School; Beijing, China — 2005
“The Complex Part of Quantum System”
Invited Talks
5th International Conference on Unconventional Computation, University of York; UK —
2006
“Language Diversity in Measured Quantum Processes”.
International Conference on Complex Systems, New England Complex Systems
Institute; U.S. — 2006
“Computation in Finitary Quantum Processes”.
Department Seminar Series, Physics Department, Uppsala University; Sweden — 2006
“Intrinsic Computation in Quantum Processes”.
Internal Seminar Series, Computational Biology and Biological Physics, Lund University;
Sweden — 2006
“Intrinsic Computation in Quantum Processes”.
Internal Seminar Series, Physical Resource Theory, Chalmers University; Gothenburg,
Sweden — 2006
“Intrinsic Computation in Quantum Processes”.
Complex Systems Seminar Series, University of California Davis; U.S. — 2006
“Complexity in Quantum Processes”.
Karoline Wiesner received her Ph.D. in Physics at Uppsala University in Sweden, in 2004, on the topic of experimental and computational studies of electronic structure and molecular dynamics. She received postdoctoral funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation in Stockholm to join the group of Jim Crutchfield at the Santa Fe Institute for Complex Systems, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Here she started her work on the mathematical foundations of intrinsic computation in natural systems. Her particular interest is natural computation in quantum systems such as proteins. Following the Crutchfield group to UC Davis, she is now a postdoc at the Center for Computational Science and Engineering, an interdisciplinary campus initiative.
Karoline Wiesner was awarded the Ångström Medal for Excellence in Research from Uppsala University in 2004. She is a “Professors for the Future” Fellow 2005-6 awarded by the UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies.