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!

Charalampos is joining Heriot-Watt University after completing his Masters of Physics at the University of Strathclyde and during his PhD he’ll be investigating spin control in SiC quantum devices. Welcome to the QPL group Charalampos!

Yashar Alizadeh is joining us after submitting his PhD thesis in the spectroscopy and crystal field analysis of rare-earth doped low-site symmetry crystals at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He’ll be working on developing quantum memory with crystals stoichiometric in rare-earth ions.

Huge congratulations to Mauro who has been awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and is due to take up his new post in October 2021 – ‘Semiconductors with a Twist: Engineering Programmable Quantum Materials’. Through this fellowship Mauro aims to engineer new quantum materials based on 2D semiconductor heterostructures. To address fundamental questions about…