People
Academic staff
Mark Fox - Director
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Group head of LDSD group
Interests: Quantum optical phenomena in semiconductor systems, coherent control of excitons in quantum dots
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Jon Heffernan
Department: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Director of National Epitaxy Facility
Interests: Epitaxy of novel semiconductors materials and devices, molecular beam epitaxy
Maurice Skolnick
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Interests: Semiconductor nanostructures, quantum dot physics, polariton physics, photonic structures
John Clark
Department: Computer science
Interests: Quantum computing, cybersecurity, cryptography
Chee Hing Tan
Department: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Interests: Single photon avalanche diodes
Jo Shien Ng
Department: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Interests: Single photon avalanche diodes
Alexander Tartakovskii
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Interests: 2D materials, semiconductor nanostructures
Dmitry Krizhanovskii
Department: Physics and Astronomy
PI of EPSRC Programme Grant
Interests: Exciton-polaritons
Pieter Kok
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Interests: Quantum communication, metrology and imaging
Earl Campbell
Department: Physics and Astronomy
PI for Quantum Computing Hub and QCDA consortium
Interests: Quantum computing, quantum error correction, quantum information theory
David Whittaker
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Interests: Quantum information in semiconductor nanostructures, linear and nonlinear optical properties of microcavities
Luke Wilson
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Interests: Semiconductor quantum nano-photonics and integration, electrical and electro-mechanical devices
Ian Farrer
Department: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Interests: Self-assembled quantum dots and site-controlled growth, molecular beam epitaxy
Research fellows
Alistair Brash
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Interests: Ultrafast quantum optics
Edmund Clarke
Department: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Interests: Molecular beam epitaxy, III-V semiconductor growth, growth and optical properties of quantum dots
Yingkai Ouyang
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Interests: Research interests: Quantum error correction, quantum metrology and quantum information theory
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Elisa Sala
Department: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Interests: MOVPE and characterization of III-V materials, epitaxial quantum dots for optoelectronic devices
Yadong Wang
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Interests: Nanomaterials, nanophotonics, ultrafast photonics
Postdoctoral researchers
Luke Brunswick
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Interests: Nano optics, photonic structures.
René Dost
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Interests:
Xuerong Hu
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Interests:
Marta Marchese
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Interests:
Maxim Makhonin
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Interests: Light-matter spin transfer and interactions in solid state quantum optics
Catherine Phillips
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Interests: Coherent spectroscopy of quantum dots, ultrafast quantum optics, experimental realisations of quantum information processing, quantum optics using quantum dots emitting in the telecoms c-band
Akshay Kumar Verma
Department: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Interests: MBE and characterisation of semiconductor materials, novel semiconductor materials, photonic devices
Paul Walker
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Interests: Optical properties of semiconductor micro and nano-structures