Welcome Miguel!

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We warmly welcome our newest PhD student, Miguel Villalobos, to our team!

Miguel hails from Bogota, Colombia. After receiving his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and Physics at Universidad de Los Andes, he moved to Italy for his Masters in Engineering Physics at Politecnico di Milano. There, he worked on the design and characterization of a path-to-polarization converter for quantum communications with an integrated photonics platform.

He looks forwards to delving deeper into quantum information theory and photonics, and we do too!

Two new doctors in the house!

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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!!

Dr Suraj Goel
Dr Sophie Engineer

BBQLab meets Lord Patrick Vallance

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BBQ Lab members Dr. Will McCutcheon and Mariana Annameng Ma had the exciting opportunity to meet UK Science Minister Lord Patrick Vallance, along with a cohort of early career researchers from the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences (IPaQS) at the Heriot-Watt University, here in Edinburgh. They presented our group’s research on the development of high-dimensional quantum technologies.

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Mehul @ Shangai for the World Laureates Forum

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Prof. Mehul Malik was one of the speakers at the 3rd Edition of the World Laureates Forum in Shangai, China. The WLA is a one-of-a-kind scientific conference. It gathered over 50 prize-winners, including laureates of the Nobel Prize, Wolf Prize, Lasker Award, Turing Award, Breakthrough Award, MacArthur Fellowship and Fields Medal, as well as outstanding young scientists worldwide, and hundreds of Chinese academics and students.

Held under the theme “Science and Technology, for the Common Destiny of Mankind,” the annual WLF advocates for science worldwide, promoting the growth of young scientists and cross-border scientific cooperation. Beyond the exceptional quality and content of the conference, it offers a global platform that demonstrates international scientific dialogue must transcend geopolitical tensions, and we as scientists must strive to ensure that it does.