Former members

Former principal investigators

Former project managers

Willeke Keijsers

Project Manager

David Brewster Building, Office 2.10

Former post-docs

Dr Dale Scerri

Research Associate

Dr Servet Ozdemir

Research Associate

Servet combines electronic transport and optical spectroscopy measurements to characterise two dimensional crystals and their heterostructures.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.40

Dr Harikumar K Chandrasekharan

Research Associate

Hari works on implementing efficient, robust and scalable interconnects between integrated quantum photonics chips and optical fibers and in the optimisation of the connectorisation methodology.
Earl Mountbatten Building, room EM G.24

Dr Wei Jiang

Research Associate

Wei is developing quantum memories in the telecom bands by using rare earth doped crystals.
Scott Russell Building, room SR G.01

Dr Shun Feng

Marie Curie Research Fellow

Shun studies the quantum optical properties of interlayer excitons trapped in moiré potentials.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.10

Dr Yashar Alizadeh

Research Associate

Yashar works on developing quantum memory protocols based on crystals stoichiometric in rare-earth ions with a focus on the use of laser-written waveguides
William Perkin Annex, room WPA G.05

Dr Swathi Hegde

Research Associate

David Brewster Building, DB 2.10

Dr Daniel Andres-Penares

Research Associate

Dani works on the fabrication and optical characterization of in-operando two-dimensional twistronic devices based on transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.10

Dr Aidan Campbell

EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow

Aidan is working on the autonomous manufacturing of 2D-semiconductor heterostructures.
David Brewster Building, DB 1.03

Dr Markus Rambach

Research Associate

David Brewster Building, DB 2.10

Dr Ben Haylock

Research Associate

Ben is working on optimising spin-based quantum sensors in diamond and silicon carbide.
David Brewster Building, room DB 1.03

Dr Hyeonjun Baek

Research Associate

David Brewster Building, DB 2.10

Dr Francesco Graffitti

Research Associate

David Brewster Building, DB G.43

Dr Artur Branny

Research Associate

David Brewster building, room DB 2.48

Dr Adetunmise Dada

Research Associate

Dr Santosh Kumar

Research Associate

David Brewster building, room DB 2.10

Dr Ralph Malein

Research Associate

David Brewster building, room DB 2.10

Dr Raphaël Proux

Research Associate

David Brewster building, room DB 1.03

Dr Ted Santana

Research Associate

Dr Ma Yong

Research Associate

Former PhD students

Maximilian Kögl

PhD student

Max performs cryogenic yoga for 2D materials, as a platform for experiments in strongly correlated electronic states and quantum emitters.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.16

Charalampos Nikolatos

PhD Student

Charalampos studies spin defects in silicon carbide quantum opto-electronic devices, for applications to quantum networks
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.40

Dr Rima Al-Khuzheyri

PhD student

Dr Peter Kremer

PhD student

Daniel White

PhD student

Daniel is working on spectroscopy and spin control of single quantum emitters in silicon carbide, at cryogenic temperature.
David Brewster Building, room DB 1.05

Micaela Laini

PhD student

Micaela develops integrated photonics to boost the performance of quantum light sources based on 2D materials.
David Brewster Building, DB 2.10

Karen Craigie

PhD student

David Brewster Building, DB 2.48

Guillem Ballesteros-Garcia

PhD student

David Brewster building, room DB 2.10

Zhe Xian Koong

PhD student

David Brewster Building, room DB 2.48

Antonios Koutroumanis

PhD student

David Brewster building, room DB 1.05

Pragati Kumar

PhD student

Carlo Montevecchi

PhD student

Raphaël Picard

PhD student

David Brewster building, room DB 1.03

Old group photos