New post-doc – Welcome Ben! By Sarah Nutt21st December 202131st December 2021 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!
Dr Zak! By Cristian Bonato15th December 202115th December 2021 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.
Congratulations Stewart! By Cristian Bonato26th October 202126th October 2021 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!
Looking for an Experimental Officer for a unique quantum sensing facility! By Cristian Bonato22nd September 202122nd September 2021 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…
We’re Hiring!! By Sarah Nutt21st September 202121st September 2021 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!!
OECS Conference Young Researcher Award – Well Done Zak! By Sarah Nutt2nd September 20212nd September 2021 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!
New PhD Student – Welcome Fred! By Sarah Nutt1st September 20211st September 2021 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!
New PhD Student – Welcome Charalampos! By Sarah Nutt31st August 202131st August 2021 Charalampos is joining Heriot-Watt University after completing his Masters of Physics at the University of Strathclyde and during his PhD he’ll be investigating spin control in SiC quantum devices. Welcome to the QPL group Charalampos!
New Post-Doc – Welcome Yashar! By Sarah Nutt17th August 202117th August 2021 Yashar Alizadeh is joining us after submitting his PhD thesis in the spectroscopy and crystal field analysis of rare-earth doped low-site symmetry crystals at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He’ll be working on developing quantum memory with crystals stoichiometric in rare-earth ions.