Congratulations to the winners of the Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition! Cora Valderas wins First Prize for “Helping Hands”, Sabrina Patsch is Runner Up with “Quantum et Circenses”, and “Better, Faster, Stronger, Lonelier” by Álvaro Buendía wins the People’s Choice Prize.
Chad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Union College, and he writes books about science for non-scientists. He has a BA in physics from Williams College and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park (studying laser cooling at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the lab of Bill Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel in Physics). He was a post-doc at Yale, and has been at Union since 2001.
Mariia is a Principal Software Engineer on the Microsoft Quantum Systems team. Microsoft Quantum is building a full-stack open cloud quantum ecosystem, bringing together experts and learners around the world.
Tania De Rozario is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of And The Walls Come Crumbling Down (Math Paper Press, 2016 / Gaudy Boy, 2020), Somewhere Else, Another You (Math Paper Press, 2018) and Tender Delirium (Math Paper Press, 2013).
Lindy is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University School of Sociology and a researcher at non-profit National Seniors Australia, having worked for over a decade as a science communication academic elsewhere. She has published extensively on representations of science in fiction, including in Springer’s 'Encyclopedia of Science Education' and international journals such as 'International Journal of Science Education Part B', 'Journal of Science Communication' and 'Sex Roles'.
George Musser is a contributing editor for Scientific American magazine and author of two books on fundamental physics, Spooky Action at a Distance and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory. He was a writer-in-residence at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in 2011. He has won numerous awards, including the 2011 Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics and, with his Scientific American colleagues, U.S.
Ingrid Jendrzejewski serves as Co-director of National Flash Fiction Day (UK), Editor in Chief of FlashBack Fiction and Flash Flood, and a flash editor at JMWW. She studied creative writing and English literature at the University of Evansville, then physics at the University of Cambridge. Her work has been published in places like Best Small Fictions, Passages North, The Los Angeles Review, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. She has won various flash competitions such as the Bath Flash Fiction Award, the A Room Of Her Own Fo
José Ignacio Latorre was appointed Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies in July 2020. He is also Professor and Provost’s Chair in the National University of Singapore's Department of Physics. A leading figure in particle physics and quantum information, José Ignacio joined CQT, NUS from the University of Barcelona. He has been heading a research group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center to build the first quantum processor in Spain. He is one of the founders of the NNPDF collaboration for research on high-energy physics.
