Author: mehulmalik

Someone recently asked me what I was most proud of this year. Without a doubt, it was the two incredible PhDs who graduated from my research group at Heriot-Watt University! Dr Suraj Goel successfully defended his thesis on “Quantum Optical Circuits with Structured Light” and Dr Sophie Engineer, a University of Bristol QET Labs CDT student, successfully defended her thesis on “Characterising Quantum Phenomena: Entanglement, Channels and Measurement.”

A huge congratulations to you both!!

The BBQLab team had the pleasure of attending the Optica (OSA) conference Quantum 2.0 in Rotterdam, NL this June. We presented 4 talks and 2 posters from our group, and heard some fantastic presentations and tutorials on the frontier of quantum technology research. It was a very nice event that seamlessly brought together academia and industry in the cool city of Rotterdam (which even boasts a neighbourhood called the Cool district!)

Last week was a big one for BBQLab with our PhD students Sophie and Mariana both winning poster prizes at two different conferences across the UK!

Sophie won the runner’s up best poster award at the Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop (BQIT:24) for her poster on “Certifying the dimensionality of a quantum channel” and Mariana won the best poster award at the Scottish Conference in Optical Technologies (SCOT) for her poster on “A multiplexed programmable quantum photonic network.” Mehul also had the privilege of giving a keynote talk at the SCOT conference, which brought together the optics and photonics community in Scotland.

Congratulations both!

We are currently advertising a 4-year PhD position in our group. If you are interested in joining us, please look at our Openings page for more information. This position will be open for applications until January 15th, 2024.