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!

Daniel White successfully defended his PhD today, with a thesis on “Novel Quantum Emitters for Integrated Quantum Photonics”. Congratulations Daniel, and all the best with your new career as a data scientist!

Want to study the exotic physics of correlated electrons in 2D materials with a quantum sensor? There’s a great PhD opportunity waiting for you, which includes a 9 month stay at Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Please email Cristian asap for more info (UK nationals only)

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!

Zak Koong successfully defended his PhD this morning, with a thesis on “Coherent Light-Matter Interaction in Semiconductor Quantum Dots”. Congratulations Zak, and all the best for the next steps in your career! Zak will be next taking up a post-doctoral position in Innsbruck, to work on trapped ions.

Stewart Wallace is one of the winners of the IPAQS Postgraduate Research Prize for 2021 for his poster on “Learning Quantum Systems from Experimental Data”. Congratulations Stewart, looking forward to see a couple of nice papers on this topic!

We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher to act as Experimental Officer for a new unique facility that will implement NV-magnetometry down to mK temperatures, to study quantum materials. This position combines the roles of supporting multiple research projects by different academic users and pursuing own research. If interested, please contact Cristian (c.bonato@hw.ac.uk) as soon…