Hau is renowned for slowing light to bicycle speed and then stopping and coherently storing optical pulses in a Bose-Einstein condensate via electromagnetically induced transparency; her current program extends this quantum-optics platform to couple light-driven photosynthetic proteins with engineered nanostructures, bridging fundamental photon physics and biophysics.
Heidmann is a founding member of LKB's cavity-optomechanics group, whose work on radiation-pressure effects, ponderomotive squeezing, and quantum-limited displacement/force measurement underpins the lab's broader precision-metrology and gravitational-wave-adjacent quantum-optics programme.
Thomas Heimburg (Professor, NBI Membranes group) works on thermodynamics and biophysics of biological membranes. Research: (1) theory of nerve pulse propagation as electromechanical solitons ('soliton model'); (2) lipid membrane phase transitions — calorimetry, DSC, AFM; (3) anesthesia mechanism via membrane phase perturbation; (4) ion-channel-like events in pure lipid membranes near phase transitions. Notably co-authored 2016 Scientific Reports paper with QUANTOP (Jensen et al.) demonstrating non-invasive detection of nerve impulses using atomic magnetometry — direct overlap with quantum sensing.
Observational high-energy astrophysicist studying black hole X-ray binaries, relativistic jets, and their impact on surrounding gas using X-ray, optical, and radio observations.
Heinze designs earth-abundant luminescent metal complexes -- the 'molecular ruby' (Cr(III)) family and its Mo(III) NIR-II-emitting analogues -- and studies their excited-state dynamics with time-resolved luminescence, ultrafast spectroscopy and EPR, in collaboration with spin-spectroscopy groups including van Slageren at Stuttgart. Applications targeted include optical sensing (oxygen, pressure, temperature), NIR-II imaging in the tissue-transparency window, and photocatalysis. Relative to the established NV-ensemble quantum-sensing playbook (DEER, nanoscale NMR, T1 relaxometry at pT/sqrt(Hz) ensemble sensitivity), this is a dye/label-based sensing inclusion rather than a spin-defect one: the emphasis is on engineering the emitter's photophysics so that lifetime and intensity report on the local environment, which is directly comparable to nanodiamond thermometry/relaxometry but at the molecular scale.
Hemmer pioneered NV-diamond spin sensing and super-resolution with spin defects, working on coherent control, photonic integration of NV sensors, and diamond-based magnetometry/imaging bridging physics and engineering. In the broader landscape of NV-centre ensemble quantum sensing (DEER, nano-NMR, T1 relaxometry) operating near pT/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity, this work is directly in the NV ensemble sensing lineage, emphasizing photonic integration and super-resolution readout.
Herkommer holds the chair for Design and Simulation of Optical Systems at Stuttgart's Institute of Applied Optics (ITO), the group behind much of the optical-design side of two-photon-3D-printed micro-optics -- printing complete multi-lens objectives on the tip of a single-mode fibre, which enables ultrathin endoscopic imaging and micro-objectives that cannot be made by conventional polishing. Related work covers freeform and metasurface optics, aberration theory, and adaptive/computational imaging. Long-running collaboration with Giessen (existing PI) at the 4th Institute of Physics. Relative to the established NV-ensemble quantum-sensing playbook (DEER, nanoscale NMR, T1 relaxometry at pT/sqrt(Hz) ensemble sensitivity), a borderline inclusion on the microscopy axis: the group does not do sensing itself, but it makes the optics that get a diffraction-limited spot into places you otherwise cannot reach -- directly useful for fibre-coupled NV probes and endoscopic quantum sensing.
Hetet's group couples NV-center ensemble electron spins in electrically or optically levitated micro-diamonds to the mechanical (rotational and translational) degrees of freedom of the host particle, demonstrating spin-dependent torques strong enough to deflect a cantilever, spin-cooling of levitated motion, and NMR performed on a levitating microparticle. This complements the well-established line of NV-ensemble quantum sensing experiments (DEER, NMR, T1-relaxometry) that reach pT/sqrt(Hz)-class sensitivities, extending the toolbox toward mechanical and single-atom/single-spin readout.
NON-PREFERRED (astronomy pivot, kept for review). Hewitt builds and operates low-frequency radio interferometers (HERA, MWA) to detect the redshifted 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization; the sensors are large radio antenna arrays rather than quantum sensors, so this is a borderline astro-instrumentation inclusion.
Hibberd holds an EPSRC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship at Manchester's PSI. Research directions: (1) Ultrafast THz spectroscopy of magnetic materials — probing spin dynamics, magnon modes, and phase transitions in correlated magnetic materials with sub-ps time resolution using intense THz pulses; (2) THz-driven spintronics — using THz electric and magnetic fields to switch magnetization and induce spin currents; (3) THz generation from spintronic heterostructures — using ultrafast spin-charge conversion as a broadband THz emitter for materials characterization; (4) Quantum magnonics — studying collective spin excitations (magnons) as quantum sensors of materials order parameters. Bridges ultrafast optics and quantum sensing of magnetic phases.