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A University of Queensland researcher has won a award for her work on quantum alphabets. 

The $25,000 fellowship will support ’s research, which aims to create a unique quantum encoding system using light shapes as letters in a quantum alphabet.

Dr Romero said that normally, if you don’t know the letters of a word, you don’t know the word.

“In quantum mechanics, you know every letter, but still have no idea what word they make up,” she said.

“This is hard to believe, so I plan to demonstrate it using photon beam shapes.”

Dr Romero said there was still much to discover about how information worked in the quantum world.

“ is expected to influence a range of areas, including sensing, communications, imaging, and computation,” she said.

Dr Romero is one of five researchers from Australia and New Zealand named as a 2017 尝&谤蝉辩耻辞;翱谤茅补濒-鲍狈贰厂颁翱 For Women in Science Fellow. 

The program showcases outstanding women in science.

Dr Romero said it was possible to combine a  productive research career with raising three young children.

“I do not feel less of a physicist because I am a mother, nor less of a mother because I am a physicist,” she said.

“The two are not mutually exclusive.”

The 尝&谤蝉辩耻辞;翱谤茅补濒-鲍狈贰厂颁翱 program also helps motivate girls in high school to pursue science careers, through the Girls in Science program and mentorship scheme.

Contact: Dr Jacqui Romero, m.romero@uq.edu.au; Tara Roberson, t.roberson@uq.edu.au, +61 404 516 635.