QPL @ Edinburgh Half Marathon By Cristian Bonato26th May 202426th May 2024 Under a heavy rain, our QPL team completed the Edinburgh Half Marathon! Some witnesses report Nick was also there, but was just too fast to be caught on camera in the photo below
Welcome Federico and Borja! By Cristian Bonato14th May 202414th May 2024 Federico Belliardo is joining us from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Federico has developed model-aware reinforcement learning methods to optimise quantum sensors, and will be collaborating with experimentalists to implement them in the lab. Borja Varona Uriarte is a PhD student in Bilbao, working with Jorge Casanova: he is joining us for a couple…
“Distinguished Student” award! By Cristian Bonato15th March 202415th March 2024 Muhammad was one of the awardees for the “Distinguished Student Program” at this year’s APS March Meeting in Minneapolis! Congratulations, wonderful news!
Dilution refrigerator installed! By Cristian Bonato21st August 202321st August 2023 The first piece of equipment of our new Quantum Magnetometry facility has just been installed and successfully tested! A Bluefors dilution refrigerator will enable us to study complex materials and heterostructures and develop quantum technologies at milli-kelvin temperatures. Looking forward to learning some exciting new physics!
Congratulations, Dr Arshad! By Cristian Bonato27th May 202327th May 2023 Muhammad (Junaid) has successfully defended his viva, after discussing his work with the examiners, Tim Taminiau from QuTech (Delft) and Margherita Mazzera. After some well-deserved partying, and a research visit to Stuttgart, he’s going to lead work at our Quantum Magnetometry facility: stay tuned for more exciting results to come!
ERC Advanced! By Cristian Bonato4th April 20234th April 2023 Brian has been awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced grant by the European Reseach Council to assemble complex materials single sheet of atoms by single sheet of atoms. This will open the possibility to design the behaviour of electrons very precisely, to create novel devices not otherwise possible. Looking forward to much exciting physics over the…
The Experimental Officer for Heriot-Watt’s Quantum Magnetometry facility is in place! By Cristian Bonato4th April 20234th April 2023 The refurbishment of the lab hosting the EPSRC-funded Quantum Magnetometry facility has been recently concluded and Muhammad Junaid Arshad has started his job as Experimental Officer for the facility. First equipment deliveries will be with us soon.. stay tuned, exciting times ahead!
New group members! By Cristian Bonato31st March 202331st March 2023 Two new group members have joined us recently. Malte Kroj is going to spend six months as a visiting master student, carrying out experiments on Fourier spectroscopy of single quantum emitters. Nick Werren is a theory post-doc joining our work on learning quantum systems, funded by the Quantum-Enhanced Imaging hub (joint with Erik Gauger and…
Welcoming new group members! By Cristian Bonato9th January 20239th January 2023 Several new group members are starting this week: Issam (PhD student, working on quantum magnetometry of 2D complex materials), Alex (PhD student, working on SiC quantum devices), Bibi (PhD student, working on quantum photonics with 2D semicnductors) and Harikumar (post-doc, working on fiber-connectorisation of quantum photonic devices). Welcome all!
Post-doc position. By Cristian Bonato18th November 202218th November 2022 An 18-month Theoretical Post-Doctoral Research Associate position is available, under the supervision of Cristian Bonato on the application of Bayesian inference and machine learning to nanoscale quantum sensing and magnetic resonance. Please get in touch asap if interested!