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!

Dr George Kourmoulakis joins us as a new post-doc who will be working on pick-and-place assembly of single sheets of atoms into moiré materials with high levels of uniformity. A huge welcome to Heriot-Watt and the QPL group George!!

A huge welcome to our 2 new PhD students Sachin and Prokhor who join us to start working on spectroscopy and quantum optics of the collectively coupled indistinguishable quantum emitters and fabrication and optical spectroscopy of transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures respectively. Welcome to the group both!!

New PhD student! Welcome to our new PhD student Shivani who joins us to start working on spin-based quantum opto-electronic devices for quantum networking. Welcome to the QPL group Shivani!

Congratulations to 2 of our PhD students, Sheena and Finley! Big congratulations to both Sheena and Finley who have won 1st year Postgraduate Research Prizes from the school of Engineering and Physical Sciences for their research posters presented at the Poster Event showcasing their individual research work. Nicely done both!!

Congratulations Dr Kogl!! Huge congratulations to Max for successfully defending his viva and more importantly for using the Quaich correctly – well done Dr Max!

The first piece of equipment of our new Quantum Magnetometry facility has just been installed and successfully tested! A Bluefors dilution refrigerator will enable us to study complex materials and heterostructures and develop quantum technologies at milli-kelvin temperatures. Looking forward to learning some exciting new physics!

Everyone had a blast at our recent QPL Group Away Day 2023 – from tubing down the River Tummel to whisky tasting at the Glenturret Distillery near Crieff and then onto dinner in Stirling, it was a great day out….and we even managed to avoid bus karaoke on the way back this time!!!

We currently have one new PhD position and three new post-doc positions available: PhD position: Post-Doc positions: Please contact Prof Brian Gerardot b.d.gerardot@hw.ac.uk or Dr Mauro Brotons-Gisbert m.brotons_i_gisbert@hw.ac.uk (for Post-Doc position 3) for more information.

Muhammad (Junaid) has successfully defended his viva, after discussing his work with the examiners, Tim Taminiau from QuTech (Delft) and Margherita Mazzera. After some well-deserved partying, and a research visit to Stuttgart, he’s going to lead work at our Quantum Magnetometry facility: stay tuned for more exciting results to come!