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!

Huge congrats to Aidan who has been awarded the EPSRC Doctoral Prize and will be working on the autonomous manufacturing of 2D-semiconductor heterostructures over the next 12 months. Well done Aidan!

Congrats to Dr. Zak Koong, who has been awarded the 2022 MacFarlane Prize from Heriot-Watt. The Prize is presented annually to the PhD graduate from Heriot-Watt who has made the most outstanding contribution to the research of the University.

Finley has recently graduated from the MPhys Physics course at Heriot-Watt and has now started working with Margherita on developing integrated quantum memories in rare earth doped crystals. Welcome to the group Finley!

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!

We have two post-doc positions available, one experimental on low-temperature scanning single-spin magnetometry and one theoretical on machine learning applied to quantum sensing. Please contact Cristian Bonato asap! More information here.

Christiaan Bekker got awarded a 5-years fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering, to develop quantum opto-electronic devices in silicon carbide. Congratulations Christiaan and looking forward to amazing results!