New PhD student! Welcome to our new PhD student Shivani who joins us to start working on spin-based quantum opto-electronic devices for quantum networking. Welcome to the QPL group Shivani!

Congratulations to 2 of our PhD students, Sheena and Finley! Big congratulations to both Sheena and Finley who have won 1st year Postgraduate Research Prizes from the school of Engineering and Physical Sciences for their research posters presented at the Poster Event showcasing their individual research work. Nicely done both!!

Congratulations Dr Kogl!! Huge congratulations to Max for successfully defending his viva and more importantly for using the Quaich correctly – well done Dr Max!

Everyone had a blast at our recent QPL Group Away Day 2023 – from tubing down the River Tummel to whisky tasting at the Glenturret Distillery near Crieff and then onto dinner in Stirling, it was a great day out….and we even managed to avoid bus karaoke on the way back this time!!!

We currently have one new PhD position and three new post-doc positions available: PhD position: Post-Doc positions: Please contact Prof Brian Gerardot b.d.gerardot@hw.ac.uk or Dr Mauro Brotons-Gisbert m.brotons_i_gisbert@hw.ac.uk (for Post-Doc position 3) for more information.

A great night was had by all sampling Robert Burns’ favourite supper of haggis, neeps & tatties…followed of course by some traditional whisky tasting!!

Huge congratulations to Dr Cristian Bonato on his well deserved promotion to Professor – great work Prof Cristian!!

Welcome to our new PhD student Tatyana who joins us to start working on fabrication, characterisation, and tuning of 2D quantum materials. Welcome to the QPL group Tatyana!

Aidan Campbell successfully defended his PhD today, with a thesis on ‘Optical Investigation of Many-Body Interactions in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures’. Congratulations Dr Aidan, and good luck as you begin your new career here in the group as an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow!!

The Thesis Prizes are awarded each year for the highest quality submissions of a doctorate degree which have been examined within EPS in the previous 12 months – congratulations Zak on being one of this year’s winners!