Have you heard of ‘Steampunk’? This is a genre of science fiction set in an alternative Victorian era, but including ‘retrofuturistic’ technologies. These technologies are often based on nineteenth-century steam-powered machines as Victorians might have imagined them in a distant future, such as flying boats and robots.
Nicole Yunger Halpern is a young American scientist who runs a theoretical physics research group at the University of Maryland’s Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, called ‘The Quantum Steampunk Laboratory’. She is a fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Maryland, and a physicist at the American National Institute of Standards and Technology. Her first degree was from Dartmouth College, her Master’s from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and her PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 2018.
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