Clare Birch

Member of Programs Staff

2025

Chief of Staff

2024 - 2025

Partnered with founders David Reilly and Thomas Ohki on Emergence's initial strategy and operations. EQ is a world-class contracting R&D org that solves the unanticipated challenges for next-generation advanced computing---the kinds that only emerge as systems scale.

Member, National Quantum Advisory Committee

2022 - 2025

Invited as one of fifteen "industry leaders" by the Hon Ed Husic, Minister for Science and Industry, and Dr Cathy Foley, Chief Scientist, to advise on Australia's first National Quantum Strategy.

Senior Associate

2024 - 2024

Encour is a strategic communications agency that emboldens clients to command the narrative. Jessy let me work for her a day a week while I was "on sabbatical".

Senior Investment Associate and "Scientist in Residence"

2021 - 2024

Invested in frontier tech (quantum, medical devices, bio, fusion, photonics, solar abundance...) from pre-seed to Series E and created and led Foundry, a frontier-tech accelerator.

Chemistry Research Assistant and Outreach Team Lead

2019 - 2021

Computational chemistry and chemistry education.

Student Fellow to the Academic Board and the Faculty of Science and its Board

2019 - 2019

Elected by peers to represent undergraduate interests at the University's second-highest governing body, and to represent student interests in science curriculum and student experience.

Programs Coordinator

2021 - 2021

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Learning Support Assistant/Teachers'​ Aid

2017 - 2018

Coached high school students with specific learning needs.

Retail Assistant

2016 - 2017

Receptionist

2015 - 2016