Dr. Mara Strungaru is currently a Lecturer in Novel Concepts/Technologies in Low Energy Computing at University of Manchester, Computer Science department, working in advanced models of magnetism for energy-efficient devices, member of the Nanoengineering and Spintronic Technologies research group (NEST).
She obtained her PhD in computational magnetism in 2021 at University of York (supervised by Prof Roy Chantrell and Dr Richard Evans), then moved to a postdoctoral position at University of Edinburgh, working on 2D magnetism. Afterwards she returned to York as a research software engineer funded by the national supercomputer ARCHER2 via eCSE. She has contributed to the development of the spin-lattice dynamics branch in the atomistic spin dynamics code, VAMPIRE, and she has been a presenter and organiser of several VAMPIRE workshops.