Virginia is a former PhD candidate supervised by CI Michael Biercuk in the Quantum Control Laboratory at the University of Sydney. Her research focused on experimental quantum control where she was devising and testing control protocols that enable error characterisation and suppression in quantum systems. When Virginia wasn’t hunting down bugs in the lab she wrote software and engaged in theory discussions with collaborators. Her appreciation for the incredible impact of proper control for experiments and the skills she developed during her candidature led her to take on a part-time position at CI Biercuk’s startup Q-Ctrl, where she developed rigorous software tools for quantum control.