Principal Investigators
Prof. Brian Gerardot
Professor, RAEng Chair in Emerging Technology
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.11
Prof. Cristian Bonato
Professor, EPSRC Early-Career Fellow
Prof. Margherita Mazzera
Professor & EPSRC Fellow
David Brewster Building, room DB1.29
Dr Samer Kurdi
Associate Professor
(From Spring 2025)
Dr Mauro Brotons-Gisbert
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Scott Russell Building, room SR G.07
Dr Christiaan Bekker
Royal Academy of Engineering fellow
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.03
Post-doctoral researchers
Dr Johan van der Westhuizen
Research Associate
Johan is working on autonomous flake identification and equipment integration to assemble 2D heterostructures.
David Brewster Building, room DB 1.05
Dr Byeong Wook, Cho
Research Associate
Cho is working on moiré physics.
David Brewster Building, DB 2.48
Dr Zhe Li
Research Associate
Zhe is working on optical nonlinear effects in moiré heterostructures.
David Brewster Building, DB 2.40
Dr George Kourmoulakis
Research Associate
George is working on pick-and-place assembly of single sheets of atoms into moiré materials with high levels of uniformity.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.16
Dr Federico Belliardo
Research Associate
Federico is applying reinforcement learning to develop novel quantum sensing protocols.
Dr Zeeshan Babar
Research Associate
Zeeshan is working on the autonomous vdW assembly pilot line project.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.10
Dr Nicholas Werren
Research Associate
Nick develops novel machine learning algorithms to optimise and automate quantum sensing and imaging.
Dr Pasquale Cilibrizzi
Research Associate
Pasquale studies single spins associated to near-infrared colour centres (divacancies, vanadium impurities) in silicon carbide.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.40
Dr Muhammad Junaid Arshad
Experimental Officer for the Quantum Magnetometry Facility
Muhammad operates our Quantum Magnetometry Facility, using quantum sensors to study complex magnetic materials at low temperature.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.40
PhD students
Dafydd Heyburn
Dafydd is working on the application of machine learning to quantum sensing, as part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in "Sensing, Processing, and AI for Defence and Security" (SPADS), and in collaboration with Erik Gauger and Yoann Altman.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.40
Meysam Setodeh Kheirabady
PhD Student
Meysam is developing integrated quantum memories based on rare earth ion doped crystals for ultra-high efficiency quantum memories and non-destructive single photon detectors.
David Brewster Building, room DB 1.03
Stefan Todd
PhD Student
Stefan is working on improving the sensitivity of spin-based quantum sensors by employing machine learning techniques to reduce computing time.
David Brewster Building
Sachin Pradhan
PhD Student
Sachin is researching spectroscopy and quantum optics of the collectively coupled indistinguishable quantum emitters.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.16
Shivani Bisht
PhD Student
Shivani is integrating spin centres with photonic structures in Silicon Carbide based quantum devices.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.40
Alex Jones
PhD Student
Alex is developing and integrating on-chip photonic, microwave and electronic microstructures to create a scalable architecture for addressing spin qubits in silicon carbide.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.40
Bibi Mary Francis
PhD Student
Bibi is working on quantum photonics with 2D semiconductors.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.16
Issam Belgacem
PhD Student
Issam uses a single-spin quantum magnetometer to map complex magnetic texture in 2D heterostructures with nanoscale spatial resolution, in collaboration with the group of Prof Jean-Francois Roch in Paris.
David Brewster Building
Tatyana Ivanova
PhD Student
Tatyana is working on fabrication, characterisation, and tuning of 2D quantum materials.
David Brewster Building, DB 2.16
Kieran McGovern
EngD Student
Razorbill Instruments
Finley Giles-Book
PhD Student
Finley is developing integrated quantum memories based on rare earth ion doped crystals for ultra-high efficiency quantum memories and non-destructive single photon detectors.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.16
Sean Keenan
PhD Student
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.16
Frederik Brooke Barnes
PhD Student
Fred uses high-quality single photons from self-assembled III-V quantum dots, down-converted to the telecom range, to develop secure quantum key distribution.
David Brewster Building, room DB 1.03
Sheena Shaji
PhD Student
Sheena engineers scalable coherent coupling among semiconductor quantum dots to realise Dicke super-radiance and other exotic states of quantum light.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.10
Daniel Forbes
PhD Student
Dan is developing an automated solution to assemble 2D heterostructures with high accuracy, yield and speed.
David Brewster Building, room DB 2.40