Associate Professor Sally Shrapnel
Associate Professor

Sally Shrapnel

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Background

Dr Shrapnel is an Associate Professor in Physics and Deputy Director at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, where she works on topics in Quantum Machine Learning and Quantum Foundations. She is also a registered medical practitioner with over 20 years experience and currently leads the Quantum Technologies for Health Program for the Queensland Digital Health Centre. Her research combines theory, methodology, and applications across a broad range of disciplines.

Availability

Associate Professor Sally Shrapnel is:
Available for supervision

Fields of research

Foundations of quantum mechanics Philosophy Philosophy and Religious Studies Philosophy of science (excl. history and philosophy of specific fields) Physical Sciences Quantum information, computation and communication Quantum physics Quantum technologies

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Medical Science, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and Medical Science, The University of Queensland
  • Masters (Coursework) of Science, Imperial College
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Search Professor Sally Shrapnel’s works on UQ eSpace

64 works between 2014 and 2025
All (64) Journal Article (49) Book Chapter (1) Conference Publication (8) Other Outputs (6)

61 - 64 of 64 works

2017

Journal Article

Discovering quantum causal models

Shrapnel, Sally (2017). Discovering quantum causal models. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 70 (1), 1-25. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axx044

Discovering quantum causal models

2016

Other Outputs

Using interventions to discover quantum causal structure

Shrapnel, Sally (2016). Using interventions to discover quantum causal structure. PhD Thesis, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2016.1102

Using interventions to discover quantum causal structure

2016

Journal Article

Quantum causal modelling

Costa, Fabio and Shrapnel, Sally (2016). Quantum causal modelling. New Journal of Physics, 18 (6) 063032, 063032. doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/6/063032

Quantum causal modelling

2014

Journal Article

Quantum causal explanation: or, why birds fly south

Shrapnel, Sally (2014). Quantum causal explanation: or, why birds fly south. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Online First (3), 409-423. doi: 10.1007/s13194-014-0094-5

Quantum causal explanation: or, why birds fly south

Current funding

  • 2025 - 2027
    The View From Somewhere: embodied agents and the quantum perspective
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2025 - 2027
    Operationally robust quantum machine learning for digital health
    Quantum and Advanced Technologies Co-Investment Program
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2025
    ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQuS2)
    ARC Centres of Excellence
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2022 - 2023
    SMART Project - Towards Systematic Maturation of Analytics and System Redesign to Transform (SMART) Healthcare and Public Health Research
    Queensland Health
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2023
    Machine learning prediction of Acute Kidney Injury in hospitalised patients with COVID-19
    Digital Health CRC
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2022
    Causal Bayesian Networks for COVID
    Monash University
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2025
    Enhanced data extraction and modelling from electronic medical records and phenotyping for clinical care, and research: Case studies in management of medication stewardship
    Digital Health CRC
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2024
    Information as fuel for a quantum clock (Foundational Questions Institute grant administered by TUQIA)
    Foundational Questions Institute
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2021
    'Are Quantum agents possible?' by Silicon Valley Community Foundation
    The University of Queensland in America, Inc
    Open grant

Availability

Associate Professor Sally Shrapnel is:
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