Team

Principal investigators

Prof. Brian Gerardot

Professor, RAEng Chair in Emerging Technology

David Brewster Building, room DB 2.11

Prof. Cristian Bonato

Professor, EPSRC Early-Career Fellow

James Nasmyth Building, room JN 2.17

Dr Margherita Mazzera

Associate Professor

David Brewster Building, room DB1.29

Dr Mauro Brotons-Gisbert

Royal Society University Research Fellow

Scott Russell Building, room SR G.07

Dr Christiaan Bekker

Royal Academy of Engineering fellow

David Brewster Building, room DB 2.03

Project manager

Sarah Nutt

Project Manager

David Brewster Building, room DB 2.10

Post-docs

Dr Zhe Li

Zhe is working on optical nonlinear effects in moiré heterostructures.
David Brewster Building, DB 2.40

Dr George Kourmoulakis

Research Associate

George is working on pick-and-place assembly of single sheets of atoms into moiré materials with high levels of uniformity.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.16

Dr Zeeshan Babar

Research Associate

Zeeshan is working on the autonomous vdW assembly pilot line project.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.10

Dr Antoine Borel

Research Associate

David Brewster Building, room DB 2.10

Dr Nicholas Werren

Research Associate

Nick develops novel machine learning algorithms to optimise and automate quantum sensing and imaging.

Dr Pasquale Cilibrizzi

Research Associate

Pasquale studies single spins associated to near-infrared colour centres (divacancies, vanadium impurities) in silicon carbide.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.40

Dr Muhammad Junaid Arshad

Experimental Officer for the Quantum Magnetometry Facility

Muhammad operates our Quantum Magnetometry Facility, using quantum sensors to study complex magnetic materials at low temperature.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.40

PhD students

Stewart Wallace

PhD Student

Stewart works on machine learning algorithms to construct models of quantum systems from experimental data, in collaboration with Erik Gauger's theory group.
David Brewster Building, room DB 1.04

Finley Giles-Book

PhD Student

Finley is developing integrated quantum memories based on rare earth ion doped crystals for ultra-high efficiency quantum memories and non-destructive single photon detectors.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.16

Kieran McGovern

EngD Student

Razorbill Instruments

Tatyana Ivanova

PhD Student

Tatyana is working on fabrication, characterisation, and tuning of 2D quantum materials.
David Brewster Building, DB 2.16

Issam Belgacem

PhD Student

Issam uses a single-spin quantum magnetometer to map complex magnetic texture in 2D heterostructures with nanoscale spatial resolution, in collaboration with the group of Prof Jean-Francois Roch in Paris.
David Brewster Building

Bibi Mary Francis

PhD Student

Bibi is working on quantum photonics with 2D semiconductors.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.16

Alex Jones

PhD Student

Alex is developing and integrating on-chip photonic, microwave and electronic microstructures to create a scalable architecture for addressing spin qubits in silicon carbide.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.40

Sheena Shaji

PhD Student

Sheena engineers scalable coherent coupling among semiconductor quantum dots to realise Dicke super-radiance and other exotic states of quantum light.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.10

Frederik Brooke Barnes

PhD Student

Fred uses high-quality single photons from self-assembled III-V quantum dots, down-converted to the telecom range, to develop secure quantum key distribution
David Brewster Building, room DB 1.03

Sean Keenan

PhD Student

David Brewster Building, room DB 2.16

Shivani Bisht

PhD Student

Shivani is integrating spin centres with photonic structures in Silicon Carbide based quantum devices.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.40

Prokhor Tkhor

PhD Student

Prokhor is working on fabrication and optical spectroscopy of transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.16

Sachin Pradhan

PhD Student

Sachin is researching spectroscopy and quantum optics of the collectively coupled indistinguishable quantum emitters.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.16

Stefan Todd

PhD Student

Stefan is working on improving the sensitivity of spin-based quantum sensors by employing machine learning techniques to reduce computing time.
David Brewster Building

Meysam Setodeh Kheirabady

PhD Student

Meysam is developing integrated quantum memories based on rare earth ion doped crystals for ultra-high efficiency quantum memories and non-destructive single photon detectors.
David Brewster Building, room DB 1.03

Daniel Forbes

PhD Student

Dan is developing an automated solution to assemble 2D heterostructures with high accuracy, yield and speed.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.40

Master students

Former members

Former members can be found here.