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!

Huge congratulations on your graduation day Zak, from the whole QPL group – have a fantastic day!

Congrats to our PhD students Maximillian Kögl & Aidan Campbell, who have been crowned winners of the Innovation Challenge Competition at Heriot-Watt, securing a £5,000 prize to kick-start a spin-out company aiming to revolutionize van der Waals device fabrication!

Dr Zeeshan will be joining us on 1st April 2022 as a research associate from the University of Edinburgh, UK and will be working on the autonomous solutions to assemble the two-dimensional materials with high level of precision, accuracy and speed. Welcome to the group Zeeshan!