Huge congratulations to Fred who was one of the IPaQS First Year Postgraduate Research Prize winners! 1st year Postgraduate Research Prizes were based on the research posters presented at the Poster Event. These posters were judged on the quality and presentation of the research work – keep up the good work Fred!

Keiran has joined us as our new EngD student and will be working with us and Razorbill Instruments. Welcome to the group Keiran!

Huge congratulations on your graduation day Zak, from the whole QPL group – have a fantastic day!

Congrats to our PhD students Maximillian Kögl & Aidan Campbell, who have been crowned winners of the Innovation Challenge Competition at Heriot-Watt, securing a £5,000 prize to kick-start a spin-out company aiming to revolutionize van der Waals device fabrication!

Dr Zeeshan will be joining us on 1st April 2022 as a research associate from the University of Edinburgh, UK and will be working on the autonomous solutions to assemble the two-dimensional materials with high level of precision, accuracy and speed. Welcome to the group Zeeshan!

Ben will be joining us in January 2022 as a post-doc, from Griffiths University (Queensland, Australia), and will be working on the optimisation of spin-based quantum sensors. Welcome to the QPL group Ben!

If you are interested in quantum information communication technologies using III-V quantum dots as solid-state spin-photon interfaces please get in touch with Brian (b.d.gerardot@hw.ac.uk) asap!!

Congratulations to one of our PhD students Zhe Xian Koong who has won a Young Researcher Award for his talk at the recent International Conference on Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems (OECS) – great work Zak, well done!

Fred has just completed his Master of Physics at the University of Manchester and he’ll be investigating quantum key distribution using quantum dot single photon sources here at Heriot-Watt. Welcome to the group Fred!