People

Meet our brilliant community of researchers and find out about their research interests.

Professor Matthias Keller 

AMO group leader

Research interests

  • the interaction between single atomic ions and light for information exchange between quantum computers
  • development of compact optical atomic clocks based on trapped ions
  • testing fundamental physics with quantum technology
  • ion-trap design, trapped ion cavity-QED, physics of molecular ions. 

Email: m.k.keller@sussex.ac.uk

Professor Matthias Keller

Professor Jacob Dunningham

Research interests

  • quantum metrology and networks
  • secure sensing
  • quantum communications. 

Email: j.dunninghamame@sussex.ac.uk

Professor Jacob Dunningham

Dr Fedja Orucevic

Research interests

  • development and application of quantum sensors, with a particular focus on optically-pumped magnometers for biomedical sensing, navigation in GNSS-denied environments and electric vehicle battery diagnostics 
  • ultracold atoms, Bose-Einstein condensates, low-dimensional quantum gases and ultra-sensitive magnetic microscopy.

Email: f.orucevic@sussex.ac.uk

and his group Quantum Systems and Devices

Dr Fedja Orucevic

Professor Winfried Hensinger

Research interests

  • ion quantum technology
  • new quantum technologies using ultra-cold trapped ions
  • experimental quantum computing with ultracold ions
  • quantum optics
  • couple atomic-condensed matter systems in the quantum domain
  • foundations of quantum mechanics. 

Email: w.k.hensinger@sussex.ac.uk

 and his group Ion Quantum Technology Group

Professor Winfriend Hensinger

Professor Barry Garraway

Research interests

  • theoretical physics, quantum physics and quantum optics
  • theoretical quantum optics, cold atom traps and BEC, molecular control and femtosecond processes
  • quantum information processing and decoherence. 

Email: b.m.garraway@sussex.ac.uk

Professor Barry Garraway

Professor Jose Verdu Galiana

Research interests

  • novel types of traps for electrons with applications to metrology
  • electrons and atoms in quantum circuits. 

Email: j.l.verdu-galiana@sussex.ac.uk

Professor Jose Verdu Galiana

Dr Evgeny Chekhovich

Research interests

  • experimental quantum physics 
  • spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots 
  • optically detected magnetic resonance
  • many-body quantum systems.

Email: ec700@@sussex.ac.uk

Dr Evgeny Chekovich

Ms Emily Crozier

Senior Research Project Officer (Quantum).

Contact Emily with any enquiries about the group.

Email: sussexquantum@sussex.ac.uk

Phone number: +44(0) 1273 872887

Emily Crozier