Team

Group leader

Jayadev Vijayan is a Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw (DKO) Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester. Prior to Manchester, he completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and LMU Munich, and was a postdoc at ETH Zurich. In his free time, he enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee.

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PhD students

Roman John Waller Alvarez is a Master of Physics from the University of Lancaster where he worked on novel semiconductor detectors for non-invasive glucose monitoring. He is studying for his PhD with the Quantum Engineering Lab where he works on high-mass quantum systems using engineered nanomaterials. In his free time, he enjoys skateboarding and water polo.

Masters students

I am Will Guest, a master’s Student from the university of Manchester. My topics of interest include Photonics, Quantum Technology and 2D Materials. I’m very excited to be working on this project, finally getting a chanve to be in a proper optical lab. When not studying for my degree or working with Jayadev, I’ll be at the boardgame society, playing a wide range of games, my favourite being “Blood on the Clocktower” a social deduction game of good and evil!

I'm Mohammed Aatif, a fourth-year MPhys Physics student at the University of Manchester, currently working on my master’s project in quantum technology under the supervision of Dr Jayadev Vijayan. My research involves building an optical tweezer array to trap and cool nanoparticles for levitated opto-mechanics. I previously interned at the University of Oxford in Dr Robert Smith’s Ultra Cold Atom Laboratory within the Atomic and Laser Physics subdepartment, where I worked with lasers and optics on experimental quantum science. Outside of academics, I enjoy calisthenics and playing table tennis.

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Collaborators

Current

Prof. Lukas Novotny, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Prof. Oriol Romero-Isart, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Prof. Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero, TU Vienna, Austria

Prof. James Millen, King’s College London, United Kingdom

Past

Prof. Romain Quidant, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Prof. Yiwen Chu, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Prof. Fabian Grusdt-Bohrdt, LMU Munich, Germany

Prof. Annabelle Bohrdt, Harvard University/University of Regensburg, USA/Germany

Prof. Eugene Demler, Harvard University/ETH Zurich, USA/Switzerland

Prof. Lode Pollet, LMU Munich, Germany