Past Members

Research Associates

Dr Simon Webster

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1997-2001 MPhys, University of Oxford
2001-05 DPhil, University of Oxford
2005-07 Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics 
2007-11  Postdoc, University of Oxford
2011-18  Postdoc, University of Sussex
2018-     Postdoc, Imperial College London
 

Simon has spent his physics career working in the field of experimental quantum optics, primarily using trapped ions. He did his D Phil at the University of Oxford, where he worked on the ground state cooling of trapped calcium ions as preparation for performing two-qubit quantum gates.

His first post-doctoral role was at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, in the area of cavity QED using single atoms, primarily for efficient generation of single photons. After this, he returned to trapped ions, working at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, and now Imperial College. He has worked on many aspects of trapped ion quantum information processing over the course of his career, including performing quantum gates using both lasers and radiofrequency fields, looking at methods of increasing the robustness of qubits and gates to experimental imperfections, and performing high-fidelity qubit state detection.

 

Dr Mahdi Sameti

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2011-14  M.Sc. Physics, University of Munich (LMU)
2014-18  Ph.D. Physics, Heriot-Watt university, Edinburgh 

2018-2021    Research Associate, Imperial College London

Mahdi did his B.Sc. in electrical engineering at Isfahan University of Technology (IUT) in Iran, before moving to Munich for his M.Sc. in Physics. He obtained his Ph.D. from Heriot-Watt university where he was working on quantum simulation of many-body systems with superconducting circuits, in particular topological phases of matter.

As a theoretician member of the ion-trapping group, he is currently exploiting quantum information processing with trapped-ions beyond the conventional Lamb-Dicke regime.  

 

Dr Johannes Heinrich

Image of Johannes HeinrichOct 2018- Nov 2019

Current placement: https://www.hs-augsburg.de/en/Architecture-and-Civil-Engineering/Energy-Efficiency-Design-E2D.html


Johannes joined the Ion Trapping Group at Imperial in October 2018 and left in November 2019, having worked for more than five years in total on ion trapping and its applications. Since 2020 he has been working in the field of energy efficiency in buildings as a freelancer and at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences to support efforts to make Germany's buildings climate-neutral by 2050.

E-Mail: johannesmatthias.heinrich@HS-Augsburg.de
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-matthias-heinrich-619069b3/

 

 

Dr Manuel Vogel

Image of Dr Manuel VogelJun 2007 - Jun 2010

Current placement: GSI Helmholtz research centre, Darmstadt, Germany.

Dr Manuel Vogel has joined the atomic physics department of GSI in Germany and works on projects with highly charged ions in Penning traps, mainly for precision spectroscopy and light-matter interaction studies.

Contact me: EmailResearchGate

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Danyal Winters

Image of Dr Danyal WintersJun 2004 - Dec 2005

Current placement: GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany

Danyal came to Imperial College in June 2004 and left in December 2005 to work for GSI in Darmstadt starting January 2006. In January 2008, he received a tenure track position at the atomic physics group. Since December 2012, he is a permanent scientific staff member at GSI. He is the `project leader´ of the laser cooling facility to be built at the SIS100 synchrotron of FAIR, and a SPARC laser cooling `working group leader´. Danyal performs laser cooling and laser spectroscopy experiments at the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR) of GSI in Darmstadt, Germany, and at the Cooler Storage Ring for experiments (CSRe) at the IMP in Lanzhou, China. Since 2015, he teaches – every summer semester – at the Technical University of Darmstadt a lecture course titled: atomic physics at accelerators.

Contatct me: EmailLinkedIn

 

Dr Dan Crick

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Mar 2009 - Oct 2014

Current placement: Iconal Technology Ltd., Cambridge.

Dan graduated with a physics degree from the University of Oxford. He then completed a PhD with the ion trapping group at Imperial College London.

Later, he moved from atomic physics to become a science and engineering consultant at TTP in Cambridge. Here, he worked on a wide range of projects, covering medical, biotech, data analytics, high-tech manufacturing and novel sensor development.

Now, he works as a senior technical consultant at Iconal Technology in Cambridge. He is part of a small (but growing) team helping government agencies to tackle non-military security threats by the application of physics and emerging technologies.  

Contact me: LinkedIn

  

 

Dr Joe Goodwin

Image of Joseph GoodwinMar 2015 - Oct 2016

Current placement: Ion Trap Quantum Computing Group, University of Oxford.

After completing his PhD studies, Joseph remained at Imperial for 18 months as an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow, before joining the Lucas/Steane ion trap group in Oxford in 2016. He has worked on a range of experiments in Oxford, including qubit memory benchmarking, construction of a cryogenic microwave-gate experiment, development of miniaturised integrated trap/vacuum systems, and photon-mediated entanglement of remote ions for distributed quantum computing. 

He is now leading work to develop a novel approach to the construction of ion traps with integrated optical cavities, targeting increased remote entanglement rates and greater reliability, essential for large-scale implementation.

Contact me: Emailwebpage

 

 

Dr Graham Stutter

Image of Graham StutterMar 2016 - Jun 2016

 

Current placement: Aarhus University, Denmark (based at the Alpha Experiment, CERN)

Since leaving the Ion Trapping Group in mid 2016, Graham have worked on the ALPHA experiment at CERN. They produce, trap and perform laser spectroscopy on antihydrogen atoms. He is part of the team responsible for measuring the 1S — 2S transition frequency, which they compare with the equivalent transition in hydrogen as a test of charge-parity-time symmetry.

Contact me: EmailLinkedInAlpha Experiment web page

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