Dr Johan joins us as a new post-doc who will be working on working on autonomous flake identification and equipment integration to assemble 2D heterostructures. Welcome to Scotland, Heriot-Watt and the QPL group Johan!!

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

Dr Byeong Wood Cho joins us as our newest post-doc and will be working on moiré physics. Welcome to Heriot-Watt University and the QPL group Cho!

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…

Our Atomic Architects outreach exhibit was back on the road again, this time at the STEM @ the Helix event which was part of the Falkirk Science Festival. It was a fun filled 2 days for school pupils and families as well as all the volunteers from our group!!

Muhammad was one of the awardees for the “Distinguished Student Program” at this year’s APS March Meeting in Minneapolis! Congratulations, wonderful news!

Dr Zhe Li joins us as a new post-doc who will be working on optical nonlinear effects in moiré heterostructures. A huge, if somewhat chilly and frosty, welcome to Scotland, Heriot-Watt and the QPL group Zhe!!

Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous 2024 – lang may yer lum reek!

Stefan is joining us as a new PhD student who will be working on improving the sensitivity of spin-based quantum sensors by employing machine learning techniques to reduce computing time. Welcome to the QPL group Stefan!

After initially booking this venue for December 2020, we finally got to enjoy a great Christmas lunch with very nearly the full QPL group!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!