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…

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!