Dr. Colleen Delaney

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Colleen Delaney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University. She obtained her PhD in Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2019, following an MS in Mathematics from the same institution in 2016 and a BS in Physics from California Institute of Technology in 2013. Delaney's research focuses on areas such as topological order, fusion categories, topological quantum field theory, quantum computation, quantum topology, categorical symmetries anomalies, and algebraic combinatorics. She has held postdoctoral fellowships, including a Simons Collaboration Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley from 2022 to 2024 and an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Indiana University from 2019 to 2022. Delaney has contributed to numerous research articles in her field, emphasizing both theoretical advancements and applications in quantum theory.

Research Interests

Experience

Simons Collaboration Postdoctoral Research Fellow

— Present

University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow

— Present

Indiana University • Bloomington, IN

Microsoft Station Q Graduate Research Fellow

— Present

Microsoft •

Requirements for Purdue University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:80
GRE Subject
Prerequisites
Knowledge of general physics Intermediate level mechanics Electricity and magnetism Statistical and thermal physics Quantum mechanics
Application Checklist
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Specialization Notes

GRE General and Physics Subject tests are optional but encouraged.