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Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Prof. Edward Laird
\nProfessor of Experimental Physics<\/p>\n

CV<\/a>
\nGoogle Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n

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Group members<\/b><\/h3>\n

Postdocs<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Zak Saadi
\nPatrick Steger<\/p>\n

Research Assistant<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Patrick Lau<\/p>\n

PhD students<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Sam Dicker
\nScott Henderson<\/p>\n

MPhys students<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Thomas Martin
\nNathan Nowell-Fenna<\/p>\n

Alumni<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Josh Bond (intern 2025)
\nMatt Taylor (intern 2025)
\nBen Wordsworth (intern 2025)
\nFinn Rehal (MPhys 2024-25)
\nDr Deepanjan Das (PhD 2020-24, to postdoc at CNRS<\/a>;
\nMichael O’Shaughnessy (MSc 2024-5, to PhD programme at Lancaster)
\nDr Matthew Green (PhD 2020-24, to postdoc at City St George’s, University of London)
\nDr Ed Riordan (postdoc 2023-25, to OQC<\/a>)
\nDr Saba Mehshar Khan (PhD 2019-24, to postdoc at Aalto)
\nBen Mowbray (intern 2024)
\nEloise Hewitson (intern 2024)
\nAndrew Smalley (MSc student 2023-4, to PhD programme at Manchester)
\nEve Clulow (MPhys student 2023-4, to National Physical Laboratory)
\nSam Furness (MPhys student 2023-4)
\nDharun Venkateswaran (intern 2023)
\nDr Mahesh Soni (postdoc 2021-22, to Nexperia<\/a>)
\nJessie Fitzpatrick (MPhys student 2021-22, to Forsberg<\/a>)
\nRowan Thwaites (MPhys student 2021-22, to PhD at Lancaster)
\nValeri Stoyanov (MPhys student 2021-22)
\nJoe Gilham (MPhys student 2021-22, to PhD at Warwick)
\nDominic Lennon (DPhil 2017-2021, Founder at QuantrolOx<\/a>)
\nNed Hayward (intern 2021)
\nJosh Fletcher (intern 2021, to PhD at Lancaster)
\nGeorge Seager (MPhys student 2020-21, to PhD at Lancaster)
\nJames Smith (MPhys student 2020-21)
\nAlex Copeland (intern 2020)
\nDr Sapna Sinha (DPhil 2016-2020, to Suenaga group, AIST<\/a>, Japan, then Schmidt Science Fellow<\/a>)
\nDr Yutian Wen (DPhil 2016-20, to Quantronics group<\/a> at Saclay)
\nDr Wenjing Yan (postdoc 2017-19, to Anne McLaren Fellowship<\/a> at Nottingham)
\nLiam Colman (intern 2019, to PhD at Lancaster)
\nPatrick Ramsey (intern 2019)
\nMax Taylor (MPhys 2018-19, to Nownano PhD scheme<\/a>)
\nDr Reuben Harding (DPhil 2015-19, to DSTL<\/a>)
\nDr Matthias Mergenthaler (DPhil 2014-2018, to IBM Research<\/a>)
\nDr Felix Schupp (DPhil 2014-2018, to Petta group<\/a> at Princeton)
\nProf. Natalia Ares (postdoc 2013-2017, to\u00a0Ares group<\/a> at Oxford)
\nDr Greg Rogers (DPhil 2013-2017, to\u00a0DarkTrace<\/a>)
\nYueze Tan (intern, summer 2016, to PhD programme at Penn State)
\nDr Tian Pei (postdoc 2013-2016, to\u00a0OxNanoSpin group<\/a>, then to Pei group<\/a> at BAQIS)
\nJames Zhou (intern 2016, to Baringa Partners<\/a>)
\nGeorge Fulton (intern 2016, to UKAEA<\/a>)
\nAquila Mavalankar (postdoc 2014-15, to\u00a0Adaptix<\/a>)
\nGufan Yin (intern, summer 2014, to PhD programme at MIT)
\nKelvin Lui (intern, summer 2014)
\nAn Chang (intern, summer 2013, to PhD programme at MIT)
\nTimmy Lavy (intern, summer 2013)
\nJonathan Willetts (intern, summer 2013)<\/p>\n

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At the Ultra-Low Temperature Christmas party 2021<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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