
Career
- 2002-present DAMTP faculty member, since 2013 Professor of Applied Mathematics
- 2002-present Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge
- 2013-2016 on leave, Professor, Dean of Faculty, Director of Photonics and Quantum Materials Program, Skoltech
- 1999-2002 PIC Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, the University of California in Los Angeles
- 1997-1999 UC President's Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, the University of California in Los Angeles
Research
Natalia Berloff leads the Quantum Fluids\ Physics-inspired computing group. She is an applied mathematician with a range of research interests which focus on coherence in non-equilibrium quantum systems, superfluidity, quantum fluids, Bose-Einstein condensates, and classical and quantum simulators based on atomic and solid-state condensates.
Selected Publications
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/ngb23/publications.html
Publications
Polychronous Wave Computing: Timing-Native Address Selection in Spiking Networks
(2026)
Programmable k-local Ising Machines and all‑optical Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks on Photonic Platforms
(2025)
(doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8264191/v1)
A Unified Analytic Framework for Microlensing Caustics: Geode Solutions and Hyper--Catalan Signatures
(2025)
Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization
– Nat.
(2025)
645,
354
(doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09430-z)
Vector Ising Spin Annealer for Minimizing Ising Hamiltonians
– Communications Physics
(2025)
8,
225
(doi: 10.1038/s42005-025-02145-7)
Vector Ising spin annealer for minimizing Ising Hamiltonians
– Communications Physics
(2025)
8,
225
(doi: 10.1038/s42005-025-02145-7)
Exact Spin Elimination in Ising Hamiltonians and Energy-Based Machine Learning
(2025)
Instantons and Rarefaction Pulses as Pathways to Global Phase Coherence in Gain-Based Optical Networks
(2025)
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