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Emily Townsend (Assoc)
Emily Townsend has a Ph.D. in physics from Oregon State University in theoretical condensed matter physics. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Joint Quantum Institute working with Garnett Bryant and others in the Atom Scale Device Group on the simulation of atomic-scale quantum devices for quantum technologies. She is studying interacting electron systems and open quantum systems using computational and analytical methods. Recently she has focused on describing the dynamics of spin qubits driven by time-dependent magnetic fields while tunnel coupled to a lead. She has also investigated the emergence of plasmonic behavior in small many-electron systems using density functional theory and exact diagonalization. Other research interests include quantum thermodynamics.