Dr Joshua Heath. Image: Maynooth University
‘The biggest misconception in my general field is that physics is hard and dominated by a pantheon of all-white-male geniuses,’ says Dr Joshua Heath.
Dr Joshua Heath is a Research Ireland Pathway fellow at Maynooth University, where his research focuses on strongly correlated superconductors, quantum simulation complexity and the development of optimal hardware for next-generation quantum devices.
Heath completed his PhD in physics at Boston College before moving on to his first postdoctoral position at Dartmouth College to research universal scaling laws in electron-phonon superconductivity.
Following this, he held joint appointments at the University of Connecticut and the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Sweden, continuing his work on superconductivity, focusing on the role of two-level system defects (TLSs) in superconducting quantum computing hardware.
