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Ms Emily Crozier
Senior Research Project Officer (Quantum)
Contact me with any enquiries about the centre.
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 872887
Email: SCQT@sussex.ac.uk
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Professor Winfried Hensinger
Director of the Centre
Winfried Hensinger heads the Ion Quantum Technology group. His group develops quantum computers, quantum simulators and portable quantum sensors using trapped ions. The group works on the construction of a prototype quantum computer at the University of Sussex and they develop integrated ion trap microchips for quantum computers, simulators and sensors.
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 877672
Email: w.k.hensinger@sussex.ac.uk
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Dr Elizabeth McKenzie
Assistant Director of Strategy and Operations
Elizabeth leads on the Centre's Strategy and Operations, driving and implementing the activities that increase our research profile, engagement and partnerships and develop the researcher community.
Telephone: +44(0)1273 872647
Email: E.Mckenzie@sussex.ac.uk
Professor Jacob Dunningham
Deputy Director (Teaching and Learning)
Jacob Dunningham is interested in quantum technologies with a particular emphasis on quantum metrology, sensing, and imaging. His research looks into innovative ways of creating and using entanglement in practical schemes as well as developing theoretical tools for studying these systems.
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 873114
Email: j.dunningham@sussex.ac.uk
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Professor Matthias Keller
Deputy Director (Planning)
Matthias Keller is studying single ions and photons, with the aim to develop new quantum technologies such as interfaces for the quantum internet and quantum computers. He also investigates quantum mechanical effects on chemical reaction dynamics.
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 877673
Email: m.k.keller@sussex.ac.uk
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Doctor Fedja Orucevic
Deputy Director (Training)
Doctor Fedja Orucevic is working in the field of Ultracold Atoms. The focus of his research is to bridge fundamental and applied aspects of quantum gases and develop a new generation of sensors that exploit the properties of quantum physics to achieve better sensitivities, accuracies and resolutions.
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 876750
Email: f.orucevic@sussex.ac.uk
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Doctor Niel de Beaudrap
Deputy Director (Emerging Researchers)
Niel de Beaudrap is a quantum computing theorist at the Department of Informatics. He works in quantum information theory and quantum architecture, and also on complexity theory, tensor networks, and combinatorics.
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 678364
Email: niel.debeaudrap@sussex.ac.uk
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Professor Barry Garraway
Barry Garraway is working on the physics of trapping and manipulating cold atoms in rings and loops, for rotation sensing, and in lattices, for quantum information processing. He is also using quantum optics for the study of photonic quantum logic.
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 877016
Email: b.m.garraway@sussex.ac.uk
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Professor Peter Kruger
Peter Kruger is a Research Professor of Experimental Physics and leads the Quantum Systems and Devices Group.
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 876761
Email: p.kruger@sussex.ac.uk
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Professor Sebastian Weidt
Sebastian Weidt is working in the field of quantum technologies and his research focuses on the development of universal quantum computers, quantum simulators and portable high frequency quantum sensors.
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 678752
Email: s.weidt@sussex.ac.uk
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Professor Jose Verdu Galiana
Jose Verdu is developing new devices for mass measurement and novel surface trap technology for trapping electrons. The electrons can be cooled down to the ground state and they can be coherently coupled to microwave quantum circuits and used for implementing quantum gates and quantum memories.
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 678712
Email: j.l.verdu-galiana@sussex.ac.uk
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Jose is Course Convenor for our Quantum Technology MSc
Dr Evgeny Chekhovich
Evgeny is interested in experimental quantum physics, spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots, optically detected magnetic resonance and many-body quantum systems.
Email: ec700@sussex.ac.uk
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Professor Gerard Milburn
Gerard works on the theory of quantum computer technologies including; superconducting, ion trap and quantum optical. His primary current research project is on designing quantum learning machines. This is an alternative to the standard qubit+gate+circuit model of quantum computing. Other interests include; quantum measurement and control, quantum fields in curved spacetime, and quantum gravity.
Email: G.J.Milburn@sussex.ac.uk
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